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ON  THE 


Roosevelt  Movement 


BY  1 

WILLARD    LIGHT 

OF 
LOS     ANGELES,    CALIFORNIA 


*'  Ani  we  know  that  all  things  work  together  for  good 
to  them  that  love  God,  to  them  who  are  the  called  according 
to  His  ^urj^ose.  "  — Romans   vIII-28. 


PRICE  oV  ,Mi9^ajLji  OMiiJ,  .»>ime: 


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C6j>yHsk^f  1912  by  the  Author ' 


Explanatory  Proem 


This  book  is  a  deliberate  attack  upon  the  utterly  false,  viciously 
unjust  and  deadly  dangerous  systems  represented  by  ex-judge  and  twenty- 
seventh  President,  William  Howard  Taft;  ex-President  and  emperor  at 
large  Theodore  Roosevelt;  ex-Convict  and  again  financial  king  of  Wall 
Street,  Chas.  W.  Morse;  seeking  to  hinder  these  three  and  gradually  de- 
stroy the  principles  they  stand  for,  thereby  helping  about  ninety  million 
people  who  are  sadly  in  need  of  assistance. 

I  am  not  trying  to  start  a  revolution  but  hoping  and  praying  to  be 
able  to  do  my  part  toward  forestalling  one  which  is  surely  coming  if 
things  go  on  as  they  have  been  running,  and  conditions  are  not  rapidly 
changed  in  favor  of  the  toilers  who  produce  the  wealth  of  the  Nation. 
It  has  long  been  patent  to  me  ithat  not  more  than  one-tenth  of  our  people 
are  hopeful,  happy  or  prosiperous. 

This  life  story  is  drawn  from  the  heartaches  and  headaches  of  thirty- 
three  years  experience  in  ithe  battle  for  bread;  composed  under  a  driving 
impulse;  compiled  without  loss  of  any  time  from  employimemt  and  prac- 
tically without  the  aid  of  books.  I  ipossess  no  books  to  speak  of  and  had 
no  time  to  visit  libraries.  The  writer  'has  only  a  very  common  school  ed- 
ucation and  has  done  little  reading  since  he  enlisted  for  life  in  the  Grand 
Army  of  Workers.  Therefore  any  statement  lierein  which  does  not  square 
with  facts  is  an  error  of  memory  or  judgment  and  not  made  with  inten- 
tion to  mislead. 

Pamphlet  published  on  individual  responsibility  and  at  personal  ex- 
pense without  asking  financial  aid,  literary  assistance  or  helpful  advice  of 
anybody  on  earth.  I  feel  that  I  have  a  backer  in  this  undertaking  who 
does  not  strike  a  partnership  with  selfish  money  grubbers,  and  to  that 
belief  I  shall  cling.  Something  seems  to  tell  me  that  any  man  who  really 
desires  to  help  the  plain  people  must  not  only  come  from  their  ranks 
but  must  remain  with  them.  Whenever  he  associates  with  the  idle  rich, 
professional  politicians  and  lets  them  pay  his  expenses  he  immediately 
becomes  one  of  them  in  spirit,  and  loses  all  power  to  faithfully  and  ef- 
fectively serve  common  folks. 

I  am  asking  my  personal  friends  to  take  up  the  first  small  edition  on 
condition  that  if  the  story  is  not  worth  the  price  they  return  it  and  re- 
ceive back  their  dimes.  That's  what  I  call  the  square  deal.  Furthermore, 
I  request  true  friends  who  are  quick  and  not  dead  to  study  my  dreams 
and  see  if  they  can  trace  any  direct  connection  between  these  celestial 
visions  and  the  practical  solution  of  our  vexing  temporal  problems.  I 
want  such  friends  to  help  me  decide  if  I  am  what  president  Taft  calls 
a  neurotic,  incapable  of  self-government,  or  whether  I  am  being  called 
to  undertake  a  high  mission  for  mankind, 

"In  the  Union  of  all  who  Love, 
For  the  Service  of  all  who  suffer." 


L'i-/: 


If  none  cX  o^y  .real,  friends  car.  see  these  things  as  I  seem  to  see  them, 
and  asK  .for  t^hf  .rdtiifij  ol  ttieir ."dimes,  I  will  endeavor  to  unhitch  my 
Pegassus  from  the  stars  and  hook  him  up  to  a  coal  wagon. 

The  millionaire  owner  of  The  Tribune  and  The  Express  is  begging 
the  toilers,  including  the  women,  to  give  him  one  dollar  for  a  membership 
card  in  his  new  party;  before  sending  this  large  sum  to  this  plutocrat 
please  send  one  dime  to  the  author  who  risked  his  lasit  bit  of  cash  to  re- 
tain copyright  and  keep  this  story  out  of  the  clutches  of  predatory  politi- 
cians. 

If  any  legal  voter  in  California  wishing  to  read  my  booklet  cannot 
spare  the  dime,  will  send  me  name  and  address  on  postal  card  I  will  en- 
deavor to  furnish  free  copies  to  all  such  as  long  as  my  ability  will  per- 
mit. I  am  not  attempting  to  make  money  but  trying  to  do  good. 

I  sincerely  hope  this  story  will  be  read  in  every  home  in  our  glorious 
Golden  State  before  November  5th,  1912. 

Yours  for  Humanity,  Peace  and  Prosperity,  Here  and  Now;  Hereafter. 
Thenceforward  and  Forever. 

WILLARD   LIGHT. 

4832  Arlington  Street, 

Los  Angeles,  California. 


To  Theodore  Roosevelt 

Twice   President  of  the   United   States  of  America 


"Just  stand  aside  and  watch  yourself  go  by; 

Think  of  yourself  ^s  "He"  instead  of  "I." 
Pick  flaws;  find  fault;  forget  the  man  is  you. 

And  strive  to  make  your  estimate  ring  true. 
The  faults  of  others  then  will  dwarf  and  shrink. 

Love's  chaiin  grow  stronger  iby  one  mighty  link, 
When  you  with  "He"  as  substitute  for  "I" 

Have  stood  aside  and  watched  yourself  go  by." 


Light  on  the  Roosevelt  Movement 

(A  Philippic  Political  Sermon) 

Los  Angeles,  California,  September  16th,  1912. 
Ladies  and  Gentlemen:  — 

I  rise  to  a  question  of  personal  privilege  and  beg  to  make  a  few  re- 
marks on  my  individual  responsibility.  I  am  ONE  of  the  PLAIN  COM- 
MON PEOPLE;  VERY  PLAIN;  MIGHTY  COMMON;  perhaps  just  about 
an  AVERAGE  CITIZEN.  I  am  not  a  Chautauqua  lecturer  at  so  much  per, 
nor  a  space  writer  fnr  revenue  only;  but  with  what  material  and  ability 
I  have  picked  up  I  wish  to  undertake  to  interpose  a  strenuous  objection 
to  the  schemes  of  the  POLITICAL  MONGRELS  who  are  now  presuming 
to  do  MOST  OF  OUR  THINKING  and  ALL  OF  OUR  TALKING. 

Fellow  Citizens 

That  means  EVERYBODY  in  our  Golden  State  by  the  Sundown  Sea; 
may  it  soon  be  the  same  throughout  every  State  in  our  Union. 

In  the  olden  days  when  I  was  a  boy,  "On  the  Banks  of  the  Wabash 
Far  Away,"  the  "Tall  Sycamore"  and  other  old-fashioned  campaign  speak- 
ers used  to  begin  addressing  their  audiences  with  this  greeting:  "LADIES 
and  GENTLEMEN  and  FELLOW  CITIZENS."  I  often  wondered  what 
sort  of  people  came  under  the  THIRD  heading,  who  could  not  be  properly 
classified  under  the  FIRST  or  SECOND.  Recent  political  developments 
have  shown  us  that  large  numbers  of  FELLOW  CITIZENS  cannot  be 
rated  as  LADIES  nor  yet  as  GENTLEMEN. 

They  seem  to  be  some  new  species;  evidently  produced  by  crossing 
a  DISGUSTED  DONKEY  with  a  SICK  ELEPHANT  and  by  some  strange 
freak  of  denature  they  show  a  strain  of  the  RAPACIOUS  TIGER.  A 
SORT  OF  ZEBRAIZED  HYBRID  WITH  NO  PRIDE  OF  ANCESTRY  AND 
NO   HOPE  OF   POSTERITY. 

The  Fifth  Party  and  the  Third  Term 

This  Nation  wants  no  FIFTH  PARTY  at  this  time  and  no  THIRD 
TERMER  AT  ANY  TIME.  Any  man  who  continues  to  throw  oil  on  the 
furiously  blazing  fagots  under  the  political  cauldron  is  not  a  PATRIOT 
but  a  TRAITOR  to  his  country. 

We  are  SURFEITED  with  politics  and  weary  of  PROFESSIONAL 
POLITICIANS;  men  with  LE:ATHER  LUNGS  and  MEGAPHONE 
MOUTHS  eternally  preaching  the  salvation  of  the  people,  saving  the  gov- 
ernment every  four  years,  continually  feeding  and  fattening  at  the  public 
trough,  while  we  work  and  wait  and  wonder,  suffer,  sweat  and  strive  to 
save  our  families  from  starvation  under  the  EVER  INCREASING  COST 
OF  LIVING,  AND  THE  VASTLY  DISPROPORTIONATE  INCREASE  IN 
WAGES. 

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Our  deaf  ears  have  been  unstopped  and  our  blind  eyes  opened  and 
with  a  clear  vision  we  now  see  that  politics  has  been  the  greatest  bunco 
game  with  which  a  patient  public  ever  was  gold-bricked  again  and  again 
and  yet  again.  FOR  ABOUT  FIFTY  YEARS  WE  HAVE  BEEN  SIMPLY 
CHANGING  BOSSES.  AND  NOW  WE  ARE  ASKED  TO  TRADE  ALL 
OUR  LITTLE  BOSSES  FOR  ON^E  GRE.VT  BOSS.  AUTOCRATIC  AND 
SUPREME.  THE  MOST  EGOTISTICAL  AND  DESPOTIC  CHARACTER 
THAT  A  FREE  AND  ENLIGHTENED  PEOPLE  EVER  PRODUCED,  DE- 
VELOPED  AND   TOLERATED. 

I  dissent.  I  HAVE  NO  DESIRE  TO  LIVE  IN  A  REPUBLIC  AND 
SERVE  UNDER  ANY  KING  BUT  THE  "LORD  GOD  OF  HOSTS.  WHO 
MUST  BE  WITH    US  YET.   LEST  WE    FORGET." 

Roosevelt  Families 

The  old  adage,  "THE  HAND  THAT  ROCKS  THE  CRADLE  RULES 
THE  WORLD,"  needs  a  new  translation  and  a  different  application;  mil- 
lions of  just  and  upright  women  do  not  propose  to  rock  any  more  cradles 
until  victory  crowns  their  heroic  efforts  to  make  this  old  earth  a  better 
and  a  safer  place  in  which  to  rear  their  chieldren. 

Scripture  says,  "THE  SEED  OF  THE  WOMAN  SHALL  BRUISE  THE 
HEAD  OF  THE  SERPENT";  the  sons  and  daughters  of  the  present  gen- 
eration give  LITTLE  PROMISE  of  ever  BRUISING  the  head  of  the  ter- 
rible serpent;  they  seem  too  much  inclined  to  BASK  IN  HIS  SMILE  and 
make  a  PET  OF  HIM.  When  the  MOTHERS  and  WOULD  BE  MOTHERS 
of  our  land  grasp  the  right  weapon  I  believe  they  will  KILL  THE  DEADLY 
SERPENT  and  SLAV  THE  GREAT  RED  DRAGON  THAT  IS  DEVOUR- 
ING HUMAN  KIND.  That  is  the  CHIEF  REASON  why  powerful  influ- 
ences for  evil  are  strenuously  at  work  trying  to  keep  the  SWORD  OF 
DAMOCLES  out  of  the  fair  clean  hands  of  women. 

WHAT  A  SPECTACLE!  Men  high  in  the  councils  of  Nations  dog- 
gedly opposing  and  persistently  withholding  the  right  of  suffrage  from 
intellectual,  educated,  refined,  Christian  women  and  yet  granting  it 
FREELY  to  the  very  LOWEST  TYPES  of  the  MALE  SPECIES.  Perhaps 
these  men  have  been  reading,  "THE  FEMALE  OF  THE  SPECIES  IS 
DEADLIER  THAN  THE  MALE."  Kipling  is  right  in  ONE  INSTANCE. 
They  are  vastly  deadlier  than  the  male  when  their  OFFSPRING  IS  IX 
DANGER. 

The  women  of  the  world  are  weary  of  passing  through  the  valley  ami 
the  shadow  in  travail  bringing  forth  noble  virile  sons  to  be  shot  down  on 
the  battlefield  and  shoveled  into  trenches,  while  their  handsome  virtuous 
daughters  go  into  sweat  shops  to  struggle  for  a  scant  existence,  until 
crushed  in  spirit  and  broken  on  the  wheel  of  our  industrial  bondage,  they 
lose  ALL  HOPE  and  fall  into  the  still  more  PITIFUL  CONDITION  OF 
SO-CALLED  WHITE  SLAVERY.  TRACE  THE  D1RE(^T  CONNECTION. 
BECAUSE  THE  SONS  GO  TO  THE  WARS  AND  PREPARATION  FOR 
WAR  THE  DAUGHTERS  MUST  GO  INTO  THE  SWEAT  SHOPS;  BOTH 
CONDITIONS  ARE  UNNECESSARY. 

FOR  THE  PRIVILEGE,  PROTECTION  AND  POWER  OF  THE  BAL- 
LOT WOMANKIND  IS  TODAY  STORMING  AT  THE  VERY  GATES  OF 
HELL,  AND   IT  SHALL    NOT   LONG   PREVAIL   AGAINST   HER. 


Equal  Suffrage 


Whether  you  like  it  or  not  it's  coming.  Those  well  meaning  women 
who  do  not  desire  the  hallot  as  a  right,  nor  wish  to  take  it  as  a  privilege 
must  accept  it  i,s  a  solemn  duty  and  a  grave  responsibility.  I  have  always 
believed  it  will  be  a  power  for  good  and  a  long  step  forward.  Heaven 
bless  the  mothers  of  our  land  and  all  good  women  everywhere.  On  them 
rests  our  ONLY  HOPE  for  the  perpetuity  of  the  race  and  the  upbuilding 
of  all  institutions  for  good.  They  are  more  intuitive  and  more  spiritual 
than  men.  YOU  CAN'T  FOOL  MANY  OF  THEM  MUCH  OF  THE  TIME. 
When  they  are  granted  universal  suffrage  the  great  majority  of  them  will 
always  be  found  on  the  RIGHT  SIDE  of  every  important  question  and 
then  we  will  succeed  in  our  determined  effort  to  purify  politics. 

The  Bull  Moose  party  has  made  a  great  bid  for  your  votes,  but  one 
of  your  foremost  leaders  has  called  attention  to  the  fact  that  while  Mr. 
Roosevelt  was  seven  years  in  the  White  House  he  was  not  so  much  inter- 
ested in  your  cause.  She  says  she  is  tiired  of  playing  wet  nurse  to  politi- 
cal parties  who  desert  her  as  soon  as  they  are  able  to  walk  alone. 

Theodore  The  First  is  always  yelling  about  the  square  deal,  and  I 
beg  the  dear  sisters  of  my  beloved  adopted  State  to  give  him  the  squarest 
kind  of  a  deal.  I  pray  you  to  remember  him  on  Nov.  5th  as  he  remem- 
bered your  cause  when  he  was  President.  May  the  Great  Teacher  forgive 
me  for  suggesting  a  transposition  of  the  Golden  Rule,  but  when  I  think 
of  how  we  have  treated  our  womankind  it  seems  to  me  that  for  many 
years  to  come  they  should  read  that  glorious  precept  after  this  fashion: 
AS  MEN  HAVE  DONE  UNTO  US,  DO  WE  EVEN  SO  TO  THEM. 

A  Grave  Crisis 

That  this  Nation  is  fast  approaching  a  critical  and  momentous  con- 
juncture in  its  history  is  no  longer  the  EMPTY  PHRASE  of  a  PAID 
political  orator.  It  is  known  of  all  men  who  have  HEARING  EARS; 
SEEING  EYES;  RECEPTIVE  BREASTS;  RESPONSIVE  HEARTS; 
QUICKENED  CONSCIENCES  and  SOULS  IN  TUNE  WITH  THE  INFIN- 
ITE. 

All  such  people  believe  that  a  NEW  DISPENSATION  is  dawning  over 
the  whole  world  and  that  this  MOST  FAVORED  REALM  should  be  the 
VERSY  FIRST  to  catch  this  FRESH  SPIRIT  OF  RIGHTEOUSNESS  and 
practically  apply  it  to  all  the  temporal  affairs  of  life. 

As  governments  are  instituted  among  men  to  PROTECT  the  weak; 
RESTRAIN  the  strong;  ENCOURAGE  and  UPHOLD  the  RIGHT;  PUN- 
ISH and  CRUSH  out  the  WRONG;  administer  JUSTICE  and  EQUAL 
RIGHTS  TO  ALL  and  SPECIAL  PRIVILEGES  TO  NONE,  UNDER  THE 
CONSTITUTION  AND  THE  LAW,  we  should  here  bring  to  full  fruition 
a  political  plan  wherein  the  humblest  citizen  would  have  a  vote  bearing 
directly  on  all  our  State  and  National  affairs,  AND  DEVELOP  A  CIVIL- 
IZATION IN  WHICH  THE  POOREST  MEMBER  WOULD  NOT  GO 
HUNGRY,  COLD  OR  NAKED. 

Our  STARRY  EMBLEM  would  then  reflect  OLD  GLORY  in  FACT  as 
well  as  NAME;  its  brightness  would  shine  as  a  beacon  light  unto  the 
feet  of  our  stumbling  brothers  in  all  lands  WHEREVER  DISPERSED 
ON  THE  FACE  OF  THE  GLOBE. 


THAT  OUR  BELOVED  REPUBLIC  WILL  RIGHT  HERSELF,  NOT 
WITH  ROOSEVELT'S  DICTATORSHIP,  BUT  UNDER  DIVINE  GUID- 
ANCE, come  safely  through  the  storm  and  work  out  her  manifest  destiny 
by  EVOLUTION  and  not  REVOLUTION  I  have  ALWAYS  BELIEVED; 
AND  I  HAVE  PREACHED  THIS  DOCTRINE  WITH  AN  ABIDING  FAITH 
FOR  LO  THESE  MANY  YEARS. 

FOR  A  LONG  TIME  I  HAVE  JUST  SEEMED  TO  FEEL  THAT  THE 
NEW  SPIRIT  OF  TRUTH  WILL  BEGIN  TO  ASSUME  TANGIBLE  FORM 
ABOUT  1915,  AND  REIGN  IN  FULL  POWER  OVER  THIS  NATION 
ABOUT  1920. 

WHEN  THE  APPOINTED  DAY  DRAWETH  NIGH,  THE  WOMB  OF 
TIME  WILL  BE  BIG  WITH  FATE  AND  THE  MAN  OF  THE  HOUR 
SHALL   APPEAR. 

Tilden-Hayes  Election 

I  CAN  REMEMBER  HEARING  MEN  TALK  OF  TAKING  THEIR 
GUNS  AND  GOING  TO  WASHINGTON  TO  SEAT  TILDEN.  I  once  heard 
a  story  of  how  a  committee  of  men  waited  upon  Mr.  Tilden,  some  of  whom 
had  just  come  through  four  weary  years  of  the  bloodiest  civil  war  the 
world  had  ever  seen,  and  informed  him  they  were  ready  to  enlist  for 
FOUR  Y^EARS  MORE.  Mr.  Tilden  asked  to  be  excused  and  went  into  a" 
room  alone  for  about  thirty  minutes,  when  he  returned  and  said:  "GEN- 
TLEMEN, LET  MR.  HAYES  HAVE  THE  PRESIDENCY." 

I  know  nothing  of  the  history  of  the  Sage  of  Gramercy  Park  but  if 
this  story  is  true  we  should  reverence  the  memory  of  Samuel  J.  Tilden. 
The  story  teller  said  Mr.  Tilden  went  into  a  room  ALONE  but  I  do  not 
think  he  was  ENTIRELY  ALONE. 

"SPEAK  TO   HIM,  THOU,  AND    HE   HEARS. 

AND   SPIRIT   AND   SPIRIT    MAY    MEET; 
CLOSER    IS    HE   THAN    BREATHING, 

AND   NEARER   THAN    HANDS  AND    FEET." 

Roosevelt-Taft  Imbroglio 

Suppose  the  coming  election  should  reproduce  the  Tilden-Hayes  situ- 
ation, and  such  a  result  is  certainly  not  improbable  nor  impossible.  Can 
any  one  imagine  Mr.  Roosevelt  saying  resignedly,  "LET  MR.  TAFT,  OR 
MR.  WILSON  HAVE  THE  PRESIDENCY"? 

Don't  take  a  chance  on  it  for  I  sincerely  fear  he  would  NOT  "FOR- 
BAD TO  WADE  THROUGH  SLAUGHTER  TO  A  THRONE,  AND  SHUT 
THE  GATES  OF  MERCY  ON  MANKIND." 

"A   FIELD  OF  THE  DEAD   RUSHES   RED  ON    MY   SIGHT. 

AND  THE  CLANS  OF  CULLODEN   ARE  SCATTERED   IN    FLIGHT." 

The  Bea^s  and  the  Bull  Moose 

WE  HAVE  SEEN  THE  BEASTS.  We  heard  the  trumpeting  of  the 
ROGUE  ELEPHANT  at  Chicago  rumbling  a  steam  roller.  We  saw  the 
TAMMANY  TIGER  at  Baltimore  seeking  whom  he  might  devour.  WE 
iNTEND  TO  SLAY  THESE  BEASTS.  But  we  do  not  propose  to  rally 
under  the  RED  FLAG  nor  the  RF,I)  BANDANA  B.ANNER  OF  CAPTAIN 
liOOSEVELT  AND  WAGE  THIS   BATTLE  IN  SUCH   MAD  HASTE  AND 


PTTRIOUS  FASHION  THAT  WE  MAY  LOSE  IT,  OR   PULL  DOWN  THE 
TEMPLE  OF  OUR  INSTITUTIONS  AND  PERISH   IN  THE  RUINS. 

Let  us  first  corral  this  BAD  Bull  Moose  according  to  a  plan  laid  down 
by  ARISTOPHANES  of  ATHENS  for  the  treatment  of  POLITICAL  DEM- 
AGOGUES WHEN  GREECE  WAS  IN  THE  DAYS  OF  HER  GOLDEN 
GLORY. 

"Close  around  him,  and  confound  Mm,  the  confounder  of  us  all; 
Pelt  him,  pummel  him,  and  maul  him;  rummage,  ransack,  overhaul  him; 
Overbear  him  and  outbawl  him;   bear  him  down  and  bring  him  under, 
BELLOWING  LIKE  A  BURST  OF  THUNDER." 

If  the  literary  sharps  who  prowl  around  the  libraries  and  spend  all 
their  time  writing  stuff,  AT  SO  MUCH  PER  COLUMN,  for  busy  folks  to 
read  can  find  anything  more  appropriately  applicable  to  the  Bull  Moose 
and  present  day  political  conditions  than  the  above  quotation  I  would  be 
pleased  to  see  it.  I  dug  it  up  out  of  an  OLD  SCHOOL  READER  and  from 
the  same  book  I  cull  this  remarkable  paragraph: 

"SOON  AFTER  THE  DEATH  OF  ANTONY,  OCTAVIUS,  AT  THE 
REQUEST  OF  THE  MOST  EMINENT  CITIZENS,  WHO  WERE  GLAD 
TO  SEEK  REFUGE  FROM  ANARCHY  AND  CIVIL  WAR  IN  A  MILI- 
TARY DESPOTISM,  TOOK  THE  GOVERNMENT  INTO  HIS  OWN 
HANDS,  AND  WITH  THIS  EVENT,  AT  THE  BEGINNING  OF  THE  28TH 
YEAR  BEFORE  THE  CHRISTIAN  ERA,  THE  HISTORY  OF  THE  RO- 
MAN   REPUBLIC   ENDS." 

CITIZENS!  BRETHREN!  COMRADES  IN  THE  GREAT  CON- 
FLICT! THERE  IS  MUCH  WORK  TO  BE  DONE  IF  HISTORY  DOES 
NOT  REPEAT  ITSELF  WITH  ROOSEVELT  IN  THE  ROLE  OF  OCTA- 
VIUS. 

The  Bull  Moose  and  the  Common  Herd 

If  GEESE  is  the  plural  of  GOOSE  then  the  followers  of  the  Big  Bull 
deserve  to  be  classified  as  MEESE.  Look  at  the  men  of  great  wealth 
supporting  the  Roosevelt  movement!  I  quote  their  names  from  Literary 
Digest  of  July  6th:  Gifford  Pinchot,  Amos  Pinchot,  Chas.  R.  Crane, 
William  Flinn,  Geo.  W.  Perkins,  Frank  A.  Munsey,  Daniel  Hanna,  Senator 
Bourne,  Oscar  L.  Straus,  Alexander  H.  Revell  and  Medill  McCormick. 

The  reputed  wealth  of  any  ONE  of  these  men,  Geo.  W.  Perkins  for 
example,  STAGGERS  THE  IMAGINATION  of  men  like  me  who  work 
year  in  and  year  out  for  a  few  dollars  a  day,  practice  extreme  economy, 
live  very  plainly,  dress  poorly,  deny  ourselves  all  recreations,  amusements 
and  little  luxuries  that  in  the  estimation  of  the  average  person  makes 
life  worth  living,  and  yet  under  existing  conditions  cannot  get  enough 
ahead  to  ever  take  a  short  vacation  from  the  nerve-racking  strain. 

I  made  a  slight  effort  to  get  SOME  IDEA  of  the  AGGREGATE 
WEALTH  of  the  ELEVEN  MEN  named  above,  but  found  I  could  neither 
take  the  time  nor  stand  the  expense  necessary  to  ascertain  any  reliable 
information  whatever  on  this  subject.  Perhaps  it  is  all  for  the  best  that 
I  could  not  obtain  this  knowledge  because  the  TOTAL  FIGURES  would 
no  doubt  be  so  APPALLING,  the  SHOCK  might  have  proved  FATAL  to 
me  and  then  the  world  would  have  lost  this  story. 


Here  in  Los  Angeles  we  know  the  chief  backer  of  the  rampage  of  the 
MAD  Bull  Moose  RAMPANT  is  the  millionaire  owner  of  the  Tribune,  and 
the  Express,  which  papers  the  Times  calls  the  "Felon's  Friend"  and  fre- 
quently refers  to  their  editor  as  E.  Toopious  Earl,  whom  they  openly  and 
repeatedly  charge  with  having  accumulated  a  part  of  his  vast  fortune  by 
withholding  rebates  properly  belonging  to  fruit  shippers.  Then  Brother 
Earl  comes  back  at  Neighbor  Otis,  the  millionaire  owner  of  the  Times, 
who  is  President  Taft's  principal  sponsor  on  this  Coast,  refers  to  his  great 
journal  as  the  "Slimes"  and  calls  the  editor-in-chief  a  man  with  a  mercen- 
ary mind  and  an  atrophied  conscience;  the  concensus  of  opinion  seems 
to  be  that  both  are  correct  in  their  estimation  of  each  other. 

Think  of  the  multi-millionaires  and  plutocrats  who  are  gathering 
under  the  Roosevelt  "BANNER  OF  STRANGE  DEVICE,"  spending  their 
money  lavishly  to  arouse  the  COMMON  HERD  to  hearken  to  the  CALL 
of  this  ROGUE  Bull  Moose,  FOLLOW  HIM  into  the  primeval  political 
wilderness  and  be  saved  from  the  RULE  OF  PLUTOCRACY.  What  a 
spectacle!  They  are  wolves  in  sheeps'  clothing  seeking  to  use  this 
FRENZIED  FANATIC  AS  A  STALKING  HORSE  with  which  to  capture 
the  POWER  of  the  real  progressive  spirit  now  working  in  the  hearts  of 
the  people,  betray  it  to  the  use  of  their  own  selfish  aims  and  ambitions 
and  AGAIN  SAVE  predatory  plutocracy  from  the  gathering  wrath  of  the 
people.  A  part  of  our  press  and  people  have  fallen  into  the  procession 
behind  the  BIG  BELLOW  and  have  become  subservient  tools  of  this 
NOISY  LEADER  and  the  RICH  PLOTTERS  who  are  supporting  his  move- 
ment. Those  who  are  furnishing  the  enormous  sums  to  finance  Mr. 
Roosevelt's  present  campaign  are  the  same  kind  of  fellows  that  handled 
him  in  the  panic  of  1907,  LOCKED  UP  OUR  REAL  MONEY  and  gave  us 
worthless  scrip  with  which  to  transact  our  business.  If  he  is  not  a  PARTY 
to  their  SCHEMES  and  cannot  SEE  them  he  is  lacking  in  that  VIRILE 
INTELLIGENCE,  KEEN  INTUITION  and  QUICK  PERCEPTION  to  read 
secret  motives  in  the  minds  of  those  who  surround  him  that  ALL  TRULY 
GREAT  MEN  have  had,  and  which  quality  his  SUCCESSOR  ALSO  SO 
PITIFULLY  LACKS. 

MAY  ALMIGHTY  GOD  IN  HIS  INFINITE  WISDOM  AND  MERCY 
KEEP  US  FROM  BEING  SAVED  BY  THIS  MOVEMENT  AS  NOW  MAN- 
AGED AND  CONTROLLED  BY  THESE  MEN. 


Out  of  the  Jungle 

Let  us  pick  up  Mr.  Roosevelt  when  he  came  out  of  the  jungle  the 
LAST  time.  I  do  not  venture  a  guess  as  to  when  Teddy  Bear  came  out 
the  FIRST  time  for  there  seems  to  be  a  great  deal  of  tlie  JUNGLE-MAN 
in  him  yet. 

Life  in  the  White  House  having  been  too  tame  tor  Jiini,  as  soon  as  he 
turned  over  the  affairs  of  state  to  his  successor  he  hearkened  to  the  call 
of  the  wild,  took  Kermit  witli  the  kofhik  and  Ills  biggest  gun  and  departed 
into  the  wilderness. 

After  spending  a  year  slaughtering  everything  that  lived  and  moved 
i..nd  had  its  being  covered  wilii  hide,  hair  or  reatluMs,  he  sliowed  up  in 
the  land  of  the  Lotus  and  tlie  FIRST  I'haroahs. 


In  Egypt 


Raised  a  sandstorm  along  the  Nile  which  came  very  near  developing 
into  a  simoon  and  starting  a  revolution.  Let  my  favorite  poet  tell  you 
about  his  visit  to  the  Sphinx: 

"I  know  all  about  the  Sphinx; 

I  know  even  what  she  thinks; 

Staring  with  her  stony  eyes  . 

Up  forever  at  the  skies; 

For  last  night  I  dreamed  that  she 

Told  ME  all  the  mystery; 

How  for  aeons  mute  she  sat. 

SHE  WAS  JUST  CUT  OUT  FOR  THAT." 

And  if  we  again  elect  Mr.  Roosevelt  President  he  will  come  just  as 
near  to  solving  our  perplexing  political  problems,  as  those  lines  of  our 
beloved  Hoosier  poet  come  to  explaining  the  riddle  of  the  Sphinx. 

At  Rome 

Insulted  the  College  of  Cardinals  and  rebuked  the  Pope.  Gave  need- 
less, unwonted  and  unwarranted  offense  to  the  broad-minded,  kindly-man- 
nered, tender-hearted,  gentle-souled,  grand  old  gentleman,  who  for  the 
time  being  represents  the  head  of  the  great  Roman  Catholic  Church,  and 
who  sent  by  Bishop  Conaty  his  felicitations  and  blessings  to  all  the  people 
of  our  city  whether  Catholics,  Protestants,  Jews  or  Gentiles. 

At  Chri^iana 

Accepted  PEACE  PRIZE  and  in  reply  delivered  an  address  in  favor 
of  UNIVERSAL  PEACE.  Day  or  two  later  reviewed  German  military 
maneuvers  with  Kaiser  Wilhelm  and  whooped  for  WAR. 

And  here  I  digress  to  say,  in  Arizona  in  the  Spring  of  1911  when 
cornered  by  Governor  Sloan  and  others,  expressed  himself  as  AGAINST 
recall  of  Judges  and  in  California  the  very  next  day  argued  in  FAVOR 
of  it. 

At  the  Hague 

Wanted  to  rock  Wilhelmina's  baby  but  she  declined  this  HIGH 
HONOR.  This  gracious  woman  IS  A  QUEEN;  SHE'S  TRYING  TO  RAISE 
BABIES;  not  so  many. as  Roosevelt  advocates  perhaps  but  endeavoring 
to  leave  at  least  ONE  REPLICA  as  a  living  monument  to  the  memory  of 
herself  and  consort  when  they  have  entered  into  rest.  Prince  Henry 
don't  count  for  much  since  the  LITTLE  TYRANT  and  GREATER  PRIN- 
CESS Juliana  Wilhelmina  of  Orange  came. 

"AND  A  LITTLE  CHILD  SHALL  LEAD  TH  EM."— Isaiah  XI:6.  I 
prophesy  that  the  BEAUTIFUL  KINGDOM  OF  THE  NETHERLANDS 
is  soon  to  be  the  SEAT  OF  A  PERFECTED  PARLIAMENT  OF  MAN; 
the  JUDGMENT  BAR  OF  THE  HIGH  COURT  OF  NATIONS,  whose  jur- 
isdiction will  be  the  WHOLE  EARTH  and  the  inhabitants  thereof,  EVEN 
UNTO  ITS  UTTERMOST  PARTS.  THIS  TRIBUNAL  endowed  with  a 
WORLD  POLICE  POWER  to  bring  offenders  to  trial  and  enforce  its  de- 
cisions. This  power  derived  from  the  ALLIED  NATIONS  CONTRIBUT- 
ING QUOTAS  ACCORDINGLY  AS  GOD  HAS  PROSPERED  THEIR  PEO- 
PLE. 

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THE  STRONG  AND  THE  WEAK  SHALL  DWELL  IN  PEACE  TO- 
GETHER, AND  THE  SPIRIT  OF  CHRIST  SHALL  GUIDE  THEM. 

AND  THAT  ALL  THIS  SHALL  COME  TO  PASS  IN  THE  DAYS  OF 
HOLLAND'S  BELOVED  QUEEN  WILHELMINA  AND  HER  MOST  HUM- 
BLE SERVANT. 

Catching  "Die  Wacht  Am  Rhein"  Asleep 

"A  ROAR  LIKE  THUNDER  STRIKES  THE  EAR, 

LIKE  CLANG  OF  ARMS  OR  BREAKERS  NEAR; 

ON  TO  THE  RHINE,  THE  GERMAN  RHINE! 

WHO   SHIELDS  THEE,   MY   BELOVED    RHINE"? 
The  FIRST  PERSON  in  history  to  subject  Kaiser  Wilhelm  to  great 
discomfiture,  keep  him  standing  at  ATTENTION  and  SWEATING  in  a 
heavy  uniform  for  nearly  one  hour,  because  the  GREATER  Emperor  was 
late  in  keeping  his  appointment. 

Almost  MOVED  THE  WORLD  to  laughter  by  lecturing  before  Kaiser 
Wilhelm  and  the  eminent  professors  of  the  University  of  Berlin,  Germa- 
ny's great  seat  of  learning,  on  the  "WORLD  MOVEMENT."  Reviewed 
everything  in  the  history  of  the  human  race  from  the  GENESIS  OF 
ADAM  to  the  REVELATIONS  OF  ROOSEVELT;  drew  the  deduction  that 
the  only  way  civilized  nations  had  ever  progressed  in  the  past  was  by 
military  prowess  and  superior  strength  of  arms  over  heathen  hordes; 
left  the  INFERENCE  CLEAR  AND  PLAIN  that  the  only  way  civilization 
could  hope  to  go  forward  in  the  future  would  be  by  ROOSEVELT  AND 
WAR. 

If  I  can  ever  get  enough  ahead  to  enable  me  to  take  a  vacation  and 
spend  some  time  in  one  of  Brother  Carnegie's  libraries  I  firmly  intend 
to  undertake  to  answer  this  GREAT  LECTURE  of  the  GREATEST  MAN. 
My  views  are  diametrically  opposed  to,  and  my  conclusions  the  antithesis 
of  his.  I  shall  endeavor  to  prove  that  the  only  way  the  great  SO-CALLED 
CIVILIZED  Nations  of  the  Earth  can  expect  to  move  onward  and  upward 
is,  not  by  carrying  a  chip  on  their  shoulders  and  a  WAR  CLUB,  THE  BIG 
STICK,  in  their  hands,  prepared  to  swat  their  neighbors  over  the  head 
at  the  DROP  OF  A  HAT  IN  THE  RING;  but  by  holding  out  in  the  LEFT 
HAND  THE  OLIVE  BRANCH  OF  UNIVERSAL  PEACE,  while  extending 
the  RIGHT  HAND  OF  FELLOWSHIP  UNTO  ALL  NATIONS.  PEOPLE, 
KINDRED  AND  TONGUES,  AND  CARRYING  THE  SWORD  OF  BUNKER 
HILL  IN   ITS  SHEATH. 

At  Napoleon's  Tomb 

Condescended  to  meditate  a  few  seconds  by  the  mortal  dust  of  the 
most  tremendous  personality  that  had  ever  lived  till  Roosevelt  came. 
Did  he  dwell  on  the  return  from  Elba,  or  did  he  see  Moscow  in  flames, 
endless  plains  of  vast  white  snows,  under  which  TWO  HUNDRED  THOU- 
SAND VETFR.\NS  OF  THE  OLD  GUARD.  THE  FLOWER  OF  FRANCE, 
WERE  ASLEEP  FOREVER?  Did  he  contemplate  this  OTHER  Emperor 
in  the  height  of  his  career  writing  the  CONCORDAT,  or  consider  him  in 
the  gloom  of  defeat,  ASICING  ASYLUM  OF  HIS  BITTEREST  ENEMIES? 
Did  he  study  his  reflections  at  St.  Helena?  Did  ho  recall  the  night  in 
May,  1821,  when  a  terrific  storm  sweeping  the  South  Atlantic  shook  that 

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lonely  island  to  its  very  center,  and  while  Nature's  Artillery  was  booming 
and  crashing  against  its  rocky  sides  the  "MAN  OF  MARENGO  PASSED 
THE  WALLS  OP  HIS  PRISON." 

AS  HE  LIVED,  SO  HE  DIED.  "HE  THAT  LEADETH  INTO  CAP- 
TIVITY SHALL  GO  INTO  CAPTIVITY:  HE  THAT  KILLETH  WITH 
THE  SWORD  MUST  BE  KILLED  WITH  THE  SWORD.  HERE  IS  THE 
PATIENCE   AND  THE    FAITH    OF   THE    SAINTS."— Rev.  XIILIO. 

The  world's  GREATEST  SOLDIER,  who  loved  to  hear  the  PUNY 
POPPING  of  the  musketry  of  men,  PASSED  OUT  AMID  THE  FLASH, 
ROLL  AND  THUNDER  OF  THE  GUNS  OF  GOD. 

"Mine  eyes  have  seen  the  glory  of  the  coming  of  the  Lord; 

He  is  trampling  out  the  vintage  where  the  grapes  of  wrath  are  stored; 

He  hath  loosed  the  fateful  lightning  of  his  terrible  swift  sword; 

HIS  TRUTH  IS  MARCHING  ON. 

In  the  beauty  of  the  lilies,  Christ  was  born  across  the  sea, 

With  a  glory  in  His  bosom  that  transfigures  you  and  me; 

As  He  died  to  make  men  holy,  let  us  LIVE  to  make  men  free, 

WHILE  GOD  IS  MARCHING  ON." 

May  the  Spirit  of  Julia  Ward  Howe  forgive  me  for  changing  ONE 
IMPORTANT  WORD  of  the  GREATEST  BATTLE  HYMN  IN  THE 
WORLD?  I  do  it  believing  that  if  this  noble  soul  was  with  us  again  she 
would  answer  the  call  of  the  Twentieth  Century  and  write  us  a  GREATER 
PEACE  HYMN,  THAT  WOULD  RING  ROUND  THE  GLOBE  ON  GOLD- 
EN BELLS,  PEALING  FORTH  GLORIOUS  CHIMES,  HARMONIZING 
WITH  THE  ANGELS'  ANTHEM  THAT  WOKE  THE  SHEPHERDS  ON 
JUDEA'S  HILLS  NINETEEN  HUNDRED  YEARS  AGO. 

"FEAR  NOT:  FOR,  BEHOLD,  I  BRING  YOU  GOOD  TIDINGS  OF 
GREAT  JOY,  WHICH  SHALL  BE  TO  ALL  PEOPLE.  FOR  UNTO  YOU 
IS  BORN  THIS  DAY  IN  THE  CITY  OF  DAVID  A  SAVIOUR,  WHICH  IS 
CHRIST  THE  LORD.  GLORY  TO  GOD  IN  THE  HIGHEST,  AND  ON 
EARTH   PEACE,  GOOD  WILL  TOWARD   MEN."— Luke  11:10.11.14. 

In  England 

Buried  King  Edward;  instructed  King  George  how  to  hold  the  REINS 
in  the  beginning  of  his  REIGN;  criticized  Parliament  and  pointed  out 
THEIR  MISTAKES  IN  EGYPT. 

Let  Uncle  Walt  Mason,  the  warbler  of  the  Sunflower  State,  tell  you 
about  Edward's  funeral.  I  can't  make  out  if  he  COUNTED  THEODORE 
THE  FIRST  as  one  of  the  nine- POTENTATES,  but  I  think  he  at  least 
had  him  in  mind;  note  FOURTH  line. 

"Nine  monarchs  followed  in  the  gloom 

When  Edward  journeyed  to  the  tomb; 

Nine  monarchs  walked,  as  in  a  dream — 

ENOUGH  TO  MAKE  A  BASEBALL  TEAM— 

And  cast  upon  King  Edward's  bier 

The  futile  tribute  of  a  tear. 

Nine  monarchs,  in  their  brave  array. 

Are  bending  over  Edward's  clay. 

And  does  the  silent  Sovereign   care, 

Or  does  he  know  that  they  are  there? 

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And  can  the  tears  of  monarchs  nine 

Make  those  dim  eyes  of  Edward's  shine? 

And  if  they  give  their  nine  commands. 

Can  they  bring  life  to  those  cold  hands? 

Can  all  their  ARMIES  AND  THEIR  SHIPS 

Bring  laughter  to  those  dead  white  lips? 

Can  their  nine  crowns  and  scepters  nine 

Bring  to  the  dead  the  life  divine? 

NINE  PAUPERS  AT  A  PAUPER'S  GRAVE, 

WHO  CLAW  THEIR  RAGS  AND  WEEP  AND  RAVE, 

CAN  DO  AS  MUCH  TO  HELP  THE  DEAD 

AS  THOSE  NINE  KINGS  AT  EDWARD'S  BED." 
IF  ROOSEVELT  COULD  NOT  RAISE  EDWARD,  OUR  BROTHER.  THEN 
THE   FATE  OF  THIS  GREAT   PACIFICATOR    MUST   REST   WITH    THE 
LORD  OF   LORDS  AND    KING   OF    KINGS. 

Homeward  Bound 

And  when  there  were  no  more  WORLDS  TO  CONQUER  he  came 
home;  turned  down  Peace  for  War;  took  the  part  of  a  ward  heeler  in  a 
state  political  fight  and  GOT  LICKED;  then  his  guiding  star  of  destiny 
CEASED  TO  SHINE  BRIGHTLY  IN  THE  EAST,  GREW  DIMMER,  BE- 
GAN TO  FADE  AND  WANE,  SINK  AND  SET   IN  THE  WEST. 

In  May,  1910,  we  saw  TWO  COMETS;  Halley's  approaching  the  Earth 
and  UNCLE  SAM'S  COMET  blazing  his  way  through  the  Capitols  of 
Europe  and  heading  for  America;  BOTH  FIERY  BODIES  THREATEN- 
ING THE  WORLD  WITH  A  GREAT  CONFLAGRATION.  I  distinctly 
remember  the  night  we  were  due  to  pass  through  the  TAIL  of  Halley's. 
Some  scientists  had  advanced  the  theory  and  opinion  that  the  gases  would 
be  fatal  to  human  life.  I  retired  with  serene  confidence  and  arose  in 
good  health;  SUN  SHINING;  BIRDS  SINGING;  ROLLING  RIGHT 
ALONG   ON   TIME. 

Morning  paper  printed  funny  cartoon  showing  ASTRONOMERS  AND 
WISE  MEN  wearing  fools'  caps  and  looking  everywhere  for  that  TAIL. 
Some  of  the  DEEPEST  THINKERS  propounded  the  very  learned  solution 
that  it  WAVED  TO  ONE  SIDE. 

Unscientific  but  devout  people  think  Deity  had  something  to  do  with 
passing  His  comet  by  our  globe  with  entire  safety  to  the  children  of  His 
creation.  ALL  SUCH  FOLKS  NOW  LOOK  TO  THE  SAME  MYSTERI- 
OUS POWER  WHICH  SAVED  US  THEN  TO  BRUSH  THE  HEAD  OF 
COMET   ROOSEVELT  TO  ONE  SIDE  AND  SAVE   US  AGAIN. 


Deifying  Roosevelt 


We  are  prone  to  be  a  MONEY  MAD,  SPEED  CRAZY.  PLEASURE 
FRENZIED,  HERO  WORSHIPING  NATION.  And  we  have  grown  dan- 
gerously careless  in  choosing  our  heroes.  We  have  been  praying  to 
Roosevelt  to  save  us  from  our  iniquities  and  forgetting  God.  and  now  the 
day  of  RECKONING  and  CHASTENING  for  both  the  IDOL  and  his  WOR- 
SHIPERS is  at  hand. 

These  people  have  taken  for  their  slogan  the  Eighth  Commandment, 
"THOU  SHALT  NOT  STEAL."     They  seem  (o  have  forgotten  the  other 

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NINE,  MOST  ESPECIALLY  THE  1st  AND  2nd,  and  at  the  very  start  to 
be  the  biggest  political  violators  of  their  OWN  MOTTO  in  our  history. 
If  I  can  understand  anything  about  politics  it  seems  to  me  the  Republican 
organization  in  our  lovely  California,  where  the  sun  shines  clear;  flowers 
oloom  bright;  birds  sing  sweetly  day  and  NIGHT;  fruit  ripens  the  whole 
j-ear  round  and  the  FATHER  ALMIGHTY  SEEMS  ALWAYS  SO  NEAR, 
inorally  belongs  to  Big  Bill  Taft  and  his  stand  pat  bunch;  but  the  MEESE 
SPECIES  under  the  local  leadership  of  Too  Much  Johnson  propose  to 
TAKE  this  well-oiled  machinery  away  from  the  Fat  Boy;  not  STEAL  it 
of  course  but  just  TAKE  it  like  snatching  candy  from  a  baby.  Then  in 
some  States  where  they  are  strong  enough  they  will  play  the  same  slick 
trick  on  our  Democratic  brethren  and  in  yet  other  States  they  will  TAKP 
anything  they  can  get  in  any  way  they  can  get  their  hands  on  it. 

I'm  just  waiting  to  see  what  Jehovah  will  do  to  such  creatures  who 
take  His  commandments  in  VAIN,  appropriate  them  to  their  OWN  USES 
and  at  the  same  time  VIOLATE  them  with  IMPUNITY.  I  beg  to  call  the 
attention  to  these  misguided  beings,  to  the  TENTH  Commandment: 
"THOU  SHALT  NOT  COVET  ANYTHING  THAT  IS  THY  NEIGHBOR'S." 

The  Hundred  Days 

Napoleon  escaped  from  Elba  March  20th,  1815;  met  the  Iron  Duke  al 
Waterloo  June  22nd  and  ABDICATED  his  ABDICATION:  ACTUAL  TIME 
NINETY-FOUR  DAYS. 

On  Sunday,  August  4th,  Colonel  Roosevelt  left  his  keepers  and  spon- 
sors in  New  York  to  OUT-LOOK  for  themselves  and  started  for  HIS  LAST 
CONVENTION  at  Chicago;  received  there  by  his  worshipers  singing; 
"WE  WILL  FOLLOW  WHEREVER  HE  LEADS."  Just  as  the  OLD 
GUARD  of  the  MAN  OF  DESTINY"  greeted  the  return  of  the  LITTLE 
CORPORAL  and  followed  him  to  CRUSHING  AND  EVERLASTING  DE- 
FEAT. 

Practically  complete  returns  will  be  in  when  the  cold  gray  dawn 
breaks  over  Oyster  Bay  November  6th;  TIME  EXACTLY  NINETY^-FOUR 
DAYS  and  the  result  in  each  case  will  be  precisely  the  same.  NEVER 
AGAIN  the  return  from  Elba  but  ALWAYS  the  retreat  from  Moscow. 
THE  RED  BANDANA  FURLED  AND  FROZEN.  SAGAMORE  HILL  an- 
other ST.  HELENA;  a  distrusted,  discredited,  DEE-serted  and  lonely  man 
gazing  out  over  the  ocean  and  saying  with  Napoleon;  "THE  MORE  I 
STUDY  THE  WORLD,  THE  MORE  AM  I  CONVINCED  OF  THE  INABIL- 
ITY OF  BRUTE  FORCE  TO  CREATE  ANYTHING  DURABLE." 

The  people  will  RECALL  the  RECALL  of  HIS  JUDICIAL  DECISION 
not  to  try  for  a  THIRD  TERM.  I  firmly  believe  this,  predicating  my  the- 
orem on  the  hypothesis  that  ROOSEVELT  like  NAPOLEON  tried  to 
CHEAT  HIS  OWN  CONSCIENCE  when  he  changed  his  attitude,  and  that 
Is  something  no  man  can  successfully  do  WHEN  THE  FATE  OF  A  NA- 
TION  HANGS   IN  THE  BALANCE. 

Trying  to  Save  Roosevelt 

Brother  Roosevelt;  THREE  TIMES  I  have  tried  to  save  you  from 
your  fate  but  you  seem  to  be  beyond  my  reach  and  now  you  must  try  tr 
save  yourself. 

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In  the  Spring  of  1910  when  you  were  returning  from  abroad,  I  under- 
stood Mr.  Carnegie  and  others  HAD,  or  WOULD  approach  you  with  a 
proposition  to  head  a  commission  to  sound  other  Nations  on  Arbitration, 
Reduction  of  Armaments  and  Peace;  endeavoring  to  work  out  a  plan  to 
stop  spending  all  our  money  for  Battleships  and  Blood,  an^  try  to  save 
some  for  Butter  and  Bread. 

I  FELT  that  you  were  going  to  make  a  MISTAKE  in  New  York  and 
I  wanted  to  send  you  a  wireless  when  you  were  on  the  ocean  but  Rev. 
Chas.  E.  Beals,  Field  Secretary  of  American  Peace  Society,  30  North  La 
Salle  St.,  Chicago,  restrained  me  in  a  brotherly  sort  of  way;  he  said  I 
was  in  an  overw^rought  condition  of  nerves  and  that  you  got  so  much  mail 
and  so  many  telegrams  you  would  not  likely  even  read  my  message  much 
less  give  it  any  attention.  I  wanted  you  to  keep  out  of  mob  politics  and 
join  us  in  Peace  work.  It  seemed  to  me  that  a  PSYCHOLOGICAL  PERI- 
OD OF  TIME  VITAL  to  this  Nation  and  the  whole  World  was  passing  us 
UNHEEDED.  In  a  strange  vision  I  saw  a  High  Court  of  Nations  estab- 
lished; a  Parliament  of  Man  perfected;  and  the  Hand  of  Destiny  with  the 
Finger  of  Fate  pointed  straight  at  you  as  the  Man  of  the  Hour. 

I  was  not  the  only  WISE  MAN  in  the  Union.  Dr.  E.  Stanton  Hodgin, 
Pastor  of  the  Unitarian  Church  here  in  Los  Angeles  must  have  had  about 
the  same  vision  for  one  year  later  he  preached  a  sermon  on  this  theme 
and  used  practically  some  of  the  SAME  PHRASES  I  HAD  WRITTEN; 
he  said  you  deserved  much  credit  for  many  things  you  had  done  but  that 
you  failed  to  answer  the  call  of  humanity  in  the  psychological  hour  and 
made  your  life  a  monumental  failure. 

LISTEN!  Dr.  Hodgin  further  said  the  great  work  you  could  and 
should  have  led  will  be  accomplished  anyway  but  it  will  be  delayed. 

LOOK!  I  saw  our  ten  million  dollar  battleships  which  war  lords  and 
military  experts  like  you  say  must  go  to  the  scrap  heap  CHANGED  into 
RELIEF  and  RESCUE  ships;  floating  hospitals;  a  new  race  of  men  trod 
their  decks;  spiritual  beings;  NOT  HUMAN  SWINE;  noble  captains 
created  in  the  image  of  the  Great  Captain;  cruising  the  seas;  flying  the 
Flag  of  the  Red  Cross;  carrying  the  wireless  attuned  to  catch  the  call 
of  humanity  from  a  Galveston  tidal  wave;  a  San  Francisco  earthquake; 
another  in  Italy.  FULL  SPEED  AHEAD  UNDER  FORCED  DRAFT; 
BAND  PLAYING  "RESCUE  THE  PERISHING,  CARE  FOR  THE  DYING. 
JESUS  IS  MERCIFUL,  JESUS  WILL  SAVE."  TITANIC  SINKING!  GO- 
ING DOWN  BY  THE  HEAD  WITH  HER  BAND  PLAYING  "NEARER, 
MY  GOD!   TO  THEE." 

STOP!  MINE  EYES  HAVE  SEEN  STILL  GRANDER  VISIONS  BUT 
THE  WORLD  IS  NOT  YET  PREPARED  TO   RECEIVE  THEM. 

Again,  when  my  morning  paper  indicated  that  you  would  throw  your 
hat  into  the  ring  within  the  next  few  days,  I  banged  my  fist  on  the  break- 
fast table  in  regular  Roosevelt  style,  nearly  upset  my  coffee  and  scared 
my  wife  by  saying;  "Alice  I'm  going  to  send  Roosevelt  a  message;  La 
Follette  is  the  logical  leader  of  the  progressive  wing  and  Taft  of  the  stand 
pat  bunch;  it's  up  to  Roosevelt  to  keep  out  of  this  light;  stay  at  Oyster 
Bay  and  keep  still." 

I  FELT  just  what  would  happen  to  you.  I  saw  a  No.  11  foot  standing 
firmly  on  that  hat  and  a  fat  man  knocking  you  over  the  ropes  with  the 
same  steam  roller  wallop  you  taught  him  how  to  land  and  not  according 

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to  Marquis  of  Queensbury  rules.  My  wife  looked  at  me  in  a  frightened 
sort  of  way  and  I  cooled  down  and  RESTRAINED  MYSELF,  and  said. 
"It's  no  use  Alice,  I  am  one  of  the  least  known  of  our  hundred  million 
citizens  and  I  cannot  hope  to  influence  Mr.  Roosevelt." 

I  was  at  Minneapolis  in  '92  and  saw  the  Plumed  Knight  go  down  to 
defeat  before  the  legion  of  federal  office  holders  and  hand  picked  delegates 
there  in  the  interest  of  the  man  who  inherited  Grandfather's  Hat,  and  I 
thought  we  were  due  to  see  the  same  thing  at  Chicago.  I  told  everybody 
I  heard  talking  politics  that  Taft's  team  would  oil  up  the  steam  roller  you 
built  and  operated  in  '08  and  run  it  over  you.  Political  wise-acres  said 
They  COULDN'T  DO  IT.  I  stuck  to  my  text  and  said  they  WILL  DO  IT. 
THEY  DID.  And  don't  you  remember  the  Cleveland  snowstorm  in  No- 
vember, '92?  YOU'LL  SEE  ONE  LIKE  UNTO  IT  NEXT  NOVEMBER. 
ONLY  HEAVIER  AND  DEEPER. 

And  yet  again  LASTLY;  when  your  misguided  friend,  Mr.  Earl  of  the 
Los  Angeles  Tribune,  and  Express  began  taking  straw  votes  for  you, 
holding  you  up  as  a  martyr  crucified  in  Chicago,  and  printing  cartoons 
and  comments  that  looked  to  me  more  like  TREASON  than  POLITICS, 
I  got  deeply  interested  in  YOUR  FATE  ONCE  MORE.  I  heard  ninety-nine 
out  of  every  hundred  saying  you  got  JUST  WHAT  WAS  COMING  TO 
YOU,  so  I  wrote  up  a  fervent  appeal  to  Mr.  Earl  and  the  Press  and  People 
of  the  Nation  to  drop  the  NEW  PARTY  MOVEMENT  AT  THIS  TIME. 
Never  had  written  anything  for  the  Press  in  my  life  but  I  rushed  around 
and  offered  my  article  to  the  Examiner  on  the  evening  of  July  3rd.  Man- 
aging Editor  Eldridge  said:  "Tei'se  and  well  written  but  unavailable." 
Tendered  to  Herald  morning  of  July  4th;  Managing  Editor  Campbell  said; 
"Good  political  article  but  we  are  keeping  out  of  politics."  For  political 
reasons  it  could  only  be  submitted  to  one  other  paper  here,  the  littLe 
Record  down  on  WALL  St.,  OUR  Wall  St.,  not  being  like  YOURS.  It  was 
written  in  spread-eagle  style  to  fit  4th  of  July  ONLY  and  it  was  then  too 
late  for  that  issue  of  Record  and  too  long  for  their  limited  space.  Man- 
aging Editor  Murdock  encouraged  me  to  rewrite  it,  cut  it  down  and  bring 
it  in.  Told  him  I  would  endeavor  to  do  so  on  my  return;  went  out  on 
regular  run  but  before  I  got  back  you  had  issued  call  for  your  convention 
and  no  HELP  ON  EARTH  could  save  you  from  your  inevitable  fate.  It 
will  take  an  experience  and  a  vision  like  that  of  Saul  on  the  Damascus 
road  to  ever  convince  you  of  the  error  of  your  ways.  The  ape  and  tiger 
must  be  crushed  out  of  you  by  the  application  of  a  spiritual  Big  Stick  in 
the  hands  of  Jehovah  before  you  will  ever  again  be  of  any  REAL  SER- 
VICE to  mankind.  I  am  now  trying  to  use  every  honorable  means  I  pos- 
sess and  all  power  I  may  receive  to  SAVE  THE  PEOPLE  and  you  must 
now  try  to  SAVE  YOURSELF  from  their  JUDGMENT. 

I  predict  EDITOR  EARL  will  be  the  DR.  BURCHARD  of  your  cam- 
paign. If  I  can  feel  the  throb  of  the  public  pulse  I  prognosticate  some  of 
the  counts  and  comments  against  you  about  as  follows:  Standard  Oil 
case — NOT  PROVEN;  La  Follette— double  crossed;  President  Taft— 
politically  assassinated;  G.  O.  P.— morally  murdered;  TRUE  PROGRESS- 
IVEISM— BADLY  BETRAYED;  verdict,  RETIREMENT  FROM  ALL  PUB- 
LIC SERVICE  FOR  REMAINDER  OF  YOUR  NATURAL  LIFE  AND  ELI- 
GIBLE TO  FULL  MEMBERSHIP  IN  THE  INFAMOUS  ANANIAS  CLUB 
WHICH   YOU  YOURSELF   FOUNDED. 

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YOU  STAND  ON  THE  REAR  OF  A  LUXURIOUS  SPECIAL  TRAIN- 
PAID  FOR  BY  MULTI-MILLIONAIRES,  BATTLING  FOR  ROOSEVELT. 
WE  STAND  ON  THE  HEIGHT  OF  MEGIDDO,  AND  WE  BATTLE  FOR 
THE  LORD. 

Armageddom 

I  have  long  felt  that  the  Armageddon  of  the  Apocalypse  is  NEAR  AT 
HAND.  I  never  did  believe  that  St.  John  intended  to  convey  to  our 
minds  the  impression  that  this  would  be  a  PHYSICAL  AND  MATERIAL 
conflict  in  which  the  Nations  would  destroy  each  other  on  the  battlefield; 
but  that  it  would  be  a  MORAL  AND  SPIRITUAL  struggle  in  which  right- 
eousness WILL  TRIUMPH,  and  the  reign  of  evil  and  worldly  things 
WILL  PASS  FOREVER  FROM  THE  EARTH. 

However,  if  the  World  develops  a  few  more  Roosevelts  it  may  yet  be 
necessary  to  translate  this  part  of  Revelations  LITERALLY  instead  of 
ALLEGORICALLY. 

"FOR  THEY  ARE  THE  SPIRITS  OF  DEVILS,  WORKING  MIRA- 
CLES, WHICH  GO  FORTH  UNTO  THE  KINGS  OF  THE  EARTH  AND 
OF  THE  WHOLE  WORLD,  TO  GATHER  THEM  TO  THE  BATTLE  OF 
THAT  GREAT  DAY  OF  GOD  ALM IGHTV."— Rev.  XVI:14. 

It  seems  to  me  Mr.  Roosevelt,  Mr.  Beveridge  and  others  I  could  name 
were  not  overcome  with  political  morality  and  civic  virtue  until  they  lost 
their  jobs.  I  cling  to  the  "faith  of  the  fathers"  and  trust  in  the  God  of 
Nations;  I  cannot  believe  He  will  permit  Mr.  Roosevelt  and  his  followers 
to  grab  His  banner  from  the  clean  hands  of  the  lion-hearted  men  who 
have  borne  it  aloft,  been  fighting  on  His  side  for  civil  righteousness  in 
both  old  parties  when  it  was  not  so  popular,  NO  VICTORY  IN  SIGHT,  and 
to  now  assume  leadership  of  His  victorious  army  and  CLAIM  ALL  THE 
CREDIT. 

Now,  Colonel  Roosevelt,  I  propose  to  carry  my  contest  against  you, 
not  to  the  committee  on  credentials,  nor  to  the  floor  of  the  convention, 
but  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  last  resort.  In  the  abdication  edict  of  the 
Dowager  Empress  of  China  I  find  these  wonderful  words:  "THE  WHOLE 
EMPIRE  IS  SEETHING  LIKE  A  BOILING  CAULDRON  AND  OUR  SUB- 
JECTS ARE  PLUNGED  IN  MISERY;  FROM  THE  HEARTS  OF  THE 
PEOPLE  THE  WILL  OF  HEAVEN  IS  DISCERN  ABLE."  And  yet  I  meet 
folks  every  day  who  think  that  yellow,  brown,  black  or  red  people  don't 
know  anything  and  have  no  souls  or  spirits;  MY  DEDUCTION  IS  THAT 
RELATIONSHIP  TO  DIVINITY  DOES  NOT  DEPEND  UPON  THE 
COLOR  OF  OUR  SKINS. 

I  will  agree  in  advance  to  accept  the  verdict  of  November  5th,  for  or 
against  you,  as  the  Will  of  Our  Father  which  art  in  heaven  reflected  from 
the  hearts  of  the  children  of  His  creation.  Will  you  do  the  same?  The 
result  may  be  instructive  and  beneficial  to  us  both;  and  I  hope  accc^ptable 
to  Him  who  taught  us  to  say:  "THY  KINGDOM  COME;  THY  WILL  BE 
DONE  ON  EARTH  AS  IT  IS  IN  HEAVEN."  "WE  STAND  AT  ARMAGED- 
DON  AND  WE   BATTLE   FOR  THE    LORD." 

My  "Confession  of  Faith" 

1  speak  with  authority  from  experience;  long  ago  I  worshiped  an  idol 
made  of  clay;  she  was  taken  from  me.     Defeated  in  all  worldly  ambitions, 

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home  destroyed,  health  gone,  spirit  crushed,  nerves  shattered,  financially 
ruined,  with  a  broken  and  contrite  heart  I  began  earnestly  seeking  atfer 
God  and  mayhap  I  have  found  Him.  Health  has  returned,  hope  revived 
and  in  a  small  way  prospects  are  bright;  appears  as  though  I  would  be 
permitted  to  enjoy  a  little  home  in  lovely  Los  Angeles,  and  look  forward 
with  confidence  to  a  peaceful,  contented,  comfortable  and  USEFUL  old 
age  in  which  I  SHALL  NOT  WANT  FOR  THE  LORD  IS  MY  SHEPHERD. 
And  now  I  try  to  keep  my  will  submissive  to  the  Divine  will  and  listen 
closely  to  THAT  STILL  SMALL  VOICE  which  is  always  saying:  "BE 
CAREFUL  HOW  YOU  WORSHIP  HUMANS  AND  THEIR  INSTITU- 
TIONS OR  ACCOMPLISHMENTS.  THERE  IS  ONE  GREATER  THAN 
ALL  THESE.  REMEMBER  THY  CREATOR  IN  THE  DAYS  OF  THY 
YOUTH  AND  HE  WILL  NOT  FORSAKE  THEE  IN  THINE  AGE." 

I  once  heard  Gypsy  Smith  sing:  "WHERE  HE  LEADS  ME  I  WILL 
FOLLOW,  FOLLOW  ALL  THE  WAY";  and  I  said  in  my  heart,  Gypsy 
has  found  Him. 

And  I  try  to  bear  ever  in  mind  some  thought  like  this: 

"I'LL  GO  WHERE  YOU  WANT  ME  TO  GO  DEAR  LORD 

OVER  MOUNTAIN  AND  PLAIN  OR  SEA; 
I'LL  DO  WHAT  YOU  WANT  ME  TO  DO  DEAR  GOD 

AND  I'LL  BE  WHAT  YOU  WANT  ME  TO  BE." 

Sacrilege  and  Blasphemy 

1  have  heard  a  few  religious  people  complain  of  President  Taft's  com- 
paring our  system  of  government  to  heaven  under  a  just  God;  he  being 
the  head  of  the  Nation  his  crude  figure  of  speech  makes  him  the  imper- 
sonator of  a  just  God  in  all  our  temporal  affairs. 

In  '96  when  Mr.  Bryan  with  far  better  taste,  and  more  appropriate 
applications  drew  some  figures  of  speech  from  the  Scriptures,  they  car- 
tooned him  as  the  Wild  Man  of  Borneo  standing  on  a  Bible,  Cross  in  one 
pocket.  Crown  of  Thorns  in  the  other,  and  labeled  him  the  Sacrilegious 
and  Blasphemous  Candidate,  hoping  to  prejudice  church  people  against 
him. 

Under  Mark  Hanna's  management  the  same  get  rich  quick  aristocracy 
and  predatory  plutocracy  now  massed  solidly  behind  Big  Bill  and  the  Bull 
Moose,  spent  NINE  MILLIONS  OF  DOLLARS  to  defeat  Mr.  Bryan.  Does 
any  sane  man  think  that  these  people  spent  their  gold  for  the  love  of 
humanity  and  to  keep  laboring  folks  from  injuring  themselves  by  voting 
for  the  Boy  Orator,  and  finding  their  dinner  pails  empty?  Don't  every 
thinking  person  believe  they  charged  us  TEN  for  ONE  for  this  service, 
and  collected  back  from  the  workers  NINETY  MILLIONS  WITH  SHY- 
LOCK'S  INTEREST  ADDED? 

They  hired  Robert  G.  IngersoU  to  make  six  speeches  in  Illinois  to 
help  put  that  State  in  Brother  McKinley's  column;  they  must  have  paid 
him  more  than  THIRTY  PIECES  OF  SILVER  for  Mr.  IngersoU  was  not 
a  cheap  lecturer.  He  delivered  a  grand  political  oration;  flowery  rhetoric 
and  empty  euphony.  We  were  reading  it  on  the  train  and  when  we  came 
to  where  he  paid  Abraham  Lincoln  a  GLOWING  TRIBUTE,  a  dear  old 
grandmother  who  was  traveling  SECOND  CLASS  looked  over  her  specta- 
cles, and  said  in  a  high-keyed  cracked  voice,  "IN  1860  INGERSOLL 
SPOKE  FOR  DOUGLAS." 

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This  may  have  been  the  same  old  lady  who  once  got  into  a  personal 
argument  with  Colonel  Ingersoll  about  religion,  and  when  he  challenged 
her  to  tell  him  just  ONE  THING  that  religion  had  done  for  the  people, 
she  matched  her  ready  repartee  against  his  sharp  satire  and  won,  when 
she  replied:  "IT  KEPT  ROBERT  G.  INGERSOLL  FROM  BEING  GOV- 
ERNOR OF  ILLINOIS." 

When  this  great  agnostic  changed  his  politics,  took  figures  of  speech 
from  the  BOOK  OF  BOOKS,  which  according  to  his  views  contains  the 
"MISTAKES  OF  MOSES,"  and  almost  got  religious,  and  nearly  made  a 
"CONFESSION  OF  FAITH"  in  order  to  help  defeat  Mr.  Bryan,  the  car- 
toonists failed  to  see  these  fine  opportunities;  SEEMS  TO  MAKE  A 
GREAT  DIFFERENCE  WHOSE  OX  IS  GORED. 

If  Bob  Ingersoll  is  taking  any  interest  in  the  present  campaign,  I  be- 
lieve he  is  on  the  side  with  Douglas  again,  and  for  Bryan's  party  THIS 
TIME,  because  he  NOW  KNOWS,  that  while  in  the  flesh  he  made  VAST- 
LY GREATER  MISTAKES  THAN  MOSES  EVER  DID.  In  memoriam  of 
Brother  Ingersoll  I  quote  from  his  oration  over  his  brother's  grave: 

"LIFE  IS  A  NARROW^  VALE  BETWEEN  THE  COLD  AND  BARREN 
PEAKS  OF  TWO  ETERNITIES.  WE  STRIVE  IN  VAIN  TO  LOOK  BE- 
YOND THE  HEIGHTS.  WE  CRY  ALOUD,  AND  THE  ONLY  ANSWER 
IS  THE  ECHO  OF  OUR  WAILING  CRY.  FROM  THE  VOICELESS  LIPS 
OF  THE  UNREPLYING  DEAD  THERE  COMES  NO  WORD:  BUT  IN 
THE  NIGHT  OF  DEATH   HOPE  SEES  A  STAR  AND  LISTENING  LOVE 

CAN   HEAR  THE   RUSTLE  OF  A  WING." 

No  Cross — No  Crown 

Ever  since  '96  I  have  believed  William  Jennings  Bryan  to  be  one  of 
the  very  first  of  our  prominent  men  to  clearly  see  the  true  connection 
between  sincere  Christianity  and  honest  politics.  For  just  SIXTEEN 
YEARS  I  have  held  to  that  ONE  OPINION;  THAT'S  MY  SIXTEEN  TO 
ONE  DOCTRINE;  I  note  that  since  the  Baltimore  convention  numbers 
of  people  have  accepted  it  in  good  faith.  Some  of  our  standard  publica- 
tions are  now  saying:  "WE  LIKED  THE  BOY  ORATOR  OF  '96  BUT 
WE  ADMIRE   THE  FIGHTING   STATESMAN   OP  1912." 

He  has  made  many  mistakes  and  suffered  for  them  just  like  the  rest 
of  us  are  paying  for  our  blunders,  but  I  always  thought  he  had  a  warm 
heart  in  the  right  place.  He  tried  to  arouse  us  but  he  was  one  cycle 
ahead  of  time,  and  we  were  joined  to  our  idols  and  refused  to  forsake 
them.  We  seem  to  have  WRITTEN  IT  ON  THE  WALL  Street  of  our 
Nation  that  he  shall  never  be  President,  but  he  is  becoming  reconciled 
to  his  fate.  He  says:  "They  used  to  call  me  the  Boy  Orator  of  the  Platte, 
but  now  my  grandchildren  are  growing  up  around  me  and  I  have  outlived 
that  title,  AND  THERE  ARE  GREATER  THINGS  THAN  BEING  PRESI- 
DENT." 

Yes  Brother  Bryan  there  ARE  BETTER  THINGS;  spiritual  affairs 
always  have  been  and  ever  will  be  more  important  and  vastly  greater 
than  temporal  matters.  Cling  to  the  "Prince  of  Peace";  stand  up  for  the 
Cross  of  Calvary  and  its  real  meaning  to  humanity;  stick  to  your  figure 
of  speech  of  '96;  this  Nation  IS  worshiping  a  CROSS  OF  GOLD,  and  a 
part  of  the  people  are  seeking  to  CRUCIFY  THE  MAJORITY  OF  MAN- 

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KIND  THEREON,  while  they  roll  by  in  their  1912  model  modern  Jugger- 
nauts, and  laugh  and  jeer  at  the  multitude  scampering  to  get  out  of  the 
way  of  these  DEATH  DEALING  DEMONS. 

EVERY  DAY  these  monster  engines  of  destruction  driven  at  reckless 
and  unlawful  speed  by  profligate  young  millionaires  are  maiming  and 
killing  DOZENS  of  the  poor  and  oppressed,  while  at  the  SAME  TIME 
crushing  all  moral  and  spiritual  life  out  of  HUNDREDS  of  the  rich  and 
idle. 

FIGHT  ON  BROTHER  BRYAN!  You  may  never  be  President  but 
your  name  will  shine  brightly  on  the  pages  of  our  history  with  those  of 
Patrick  Henry,  Wendell  Phillips,  Henry  Clay  and  many  others  who  were 
never  Presidents,  when  they  who  have  maligned  you,  cartooned,  lam- 
pooned and  harpooned  you  are  gone  and  forgotten,  and  all  record  of  them 
sunken  into  the  black  morass  of  utter  oblivion. 
FIGHT  ON! 

"FOR  THE  RIGHT  THAT  WANTS  ASSISTANCE; 

'GAINST  THE  WRONG  THAT  NEEDS  RESISTANCE; 

FOR  THE  FUTURE  IN  THE  DISTANCE, 

AND  THE  GOOD  THAT  YOU  CAN  DO." 

Comments  Abroad  and  at  Home 

Consider  the  unfavorable  cartoons  and  comments  of  the  foreign  press ; 
pointing  out  to  what  a  low  level  politics  in  America  has  fallen  and  draw- 
ing the  conclusion  that  our  Republic  is  a  failure.  Can  we  find  fault  with 
our  alien  critics  when  they  see  a  President  and  an  ex-President  who  were 
ONCE  BOSOM  FRIENDS  now  chasing  each  other  from  stump  to  stump 
and  shouting,  "Liar!"  "You're  another!"  "You're  a  bigger  one!"  "Stop 
thief!"  "Surrender  your  loot!"  "Oh!  thou  Lorimer!"  muck-raking,  slinging 
mud  and  hurling  billingsgate;  appealing  to  the  passions  and  prejudices 
of  the  mob?  This  Jeffries-Johnson  Presidential  political  exhibition  that 
has  disgraced  us  before  the  Nations  of  the  Earth  should  ALONE  be  suffi- 
cient reason  why  Big  Bill  Taft  and  Bull  Moose  Ted  deserve  to  be  forever 
retired  to  private  life.  Occasionally  a  friend  of  Mr.  Roosevelt's  says  to 
me,  don't  the  primaries  prove  that  the  PEOPLE  want  Roosevelt  in  their 
White  House  again  and  I  say  they  do  NOT;  from 'my  viewpoint  and  analy- 
sis they  ONLY  PROVE  THAT  MORE  PEOPLE  would  prefer  to  have  Mr. 
Roosevelt  there  the  THIRD  TIME  than  Mr.  Taft  the  SECOND  TIME  and 
in  my  judgment  that  is  a  SEVERE  CONDEMNATION  OF  BOTH. 

I  think  our  Senator  tersely  expressed  prevailing  opinion  in  his  tele- 
gram answering  the  "FORTY  IMMATERIALS"  who  called  on  him  to  re- 
sign when  he  replied:  "WILL  NOT  VOTE  FOR  TAFT;  WOULD  HAVE 
VOTED  FOR  ROOSEVELT  HAD  HE  BEEN  REGULAR  NOMINEE  OF 
PARTY;  WILL  NOT  FOLLOW  HIM  INTO  NEW  PARTY."  We  certainly 
got  a  prize  when  we  drew  John  D.  Works  of  Los  Angeles  instead  of  Mr. 
Spaulding  of  San  Diego. 

A  noted  educator  and  lecturer  recently  traveled  with  me;  while  dis- 
cussing Universal  Peace  with  him  I  noticed  in  his  hand  a  copy  of  Har- 
per's showing  "Mt.  Roosevelt"  in  eruption;  glancing  at  the  cartoon  I  said, 
"Doctor,  what  SHALL  we  do  with  Teddy  and  Taft?"  He  answered  calmly 
and  deliberately  without  any  show  of  personal  feeling  or  partisan  bias, 

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"I  GUESS  WE  HAD  BETTER  DROP  THEM  BOTH."  It  does  appear  to 
me  that  his  answer  clearly  and  concisely  expresses  the  sober  discern- 
ment of  the  thinkers  of  the  nation. 

Some  scholars  have  called  our  attention  to  the  prophecy  of  English 
writers  of  the  middle  of  the  nineteenth  century  who  predicted  that  we 
were  in  danger  from  our  great  prosperity,  which  signified  easily  gotten 
riches,  and  that  meant  a  class  of  ignorant  men  would  come  forward  with 
pockets  full  of  money  and  no  ideals  in  their  hearts  and  this  cheap  and 
easy  aristocracy  would  be  the  undoing  of  the  United  States.  This  illiter- 
ate wealthy  "J.  Rufus  Wallingford"  class  HAVE  COME  FORWARD.  To- 
day they  dominate  church,  state  and  business;  few  ministers  are  preach- 
ing what  they  THINK  and  wha-t  they  FEEL;  most  are  discoursing  what 
their  congregations  like  to  hear  and  are  very  careful  not  to  offend  those 
who  endow  the  great  temples  and  pay  their  big  salaries.  If  you  wish 
to  see  a  true  picture  of  the  evil  effect  of  the  power  of  money  in  our 
churches  and  its  baneful  influence  over  sincere  and  conscientious  strug- 
gling clergymen  read,  "The  Calling  of  Dan  Matthew's,"  by  Harold  Bell 
Wright. 

If  the  prophecy  of  these  English  students  is  not  to  be  fulfilled  in  its 
entirety  we  must  take  the  control  of  our  Spiritual  and  Temporal,  political 
and  commercial  affairs  out  of  the  hands  of  this  GET  RICH  QUICK 
PLUTOCRACY,  and  give  them  into  the  keeping  of  men  of  little  means 
and  small  property  who  have  HIGH  IDEALS  and  GRAND  VISIONS,  and 
who  are  yet  ballasted  and  ballanced  with  a  tremendous  weight  of  com- 
mon sense  to  make  them  safe  for  a  stormy  voyage,  because  the  waves 
of  our  political  sea  are  going  to  run  rough  and  high  for  the  next  few 
years. 

Scripture  was  never  quoted  with  more  powerful  effect  than  in  Lin- 
coln's "HOUSE  DIVIDED"  speech.  Applying  his  thought  to  present  day 
conditions  I  say  this  Nation  is  again  HALF  SLAVE  and  HALF  FREE  and 
it  cannot  continue  to  exist  in  that  manner.  One  half  are  overworked  and 
hungry  producers  and  the  other  half  idle  and  overfed  consumers.  One 
half  slaves  to  unremitting  and  poorly  paid  toil,  bound  hand  and  foot  in 
our  industrial  bondage;  the  other  half  indolent  and  free  from  service 
of  any  kind,  living  at  ease  and  in  luxury.  "THEY  TOIL  NOT  NEITHER 
DO  THEY  SPIN,  YET  SOLOMON  IN  ALL  HIS  GLORY  WAS  NOT  AR- 
RAYED LIKE  ONE  OF  THESE."  Their  1912  model  automobiles  would 
make  Pharaoh's  chariots  look  like  rubbish  wagons  by  comparison,  and 
their  private  palatial  yachts  fitted  up  with  sensuous  luxuries  would  put 
Cleopatra's  barge  in  the  fishing  smack  class;  and  too  many  of  these  pleas- 
ure vessels  and  devil  juggernauts  are  owned  with  the  same  idea  Egypt's 
voluptious  queen  had  in  mind  when  she  sailed  to  meet  Antony. 

I  beg  to  call  the  attention  of  these  idle  and  profligate  prodigals  to 
Mr.  Frederick  Townsend  Martin's  book  on  "The  Passing  of  the  Idle  Rich"; 
read  and  reflect;  take  due  and  timely  notice  and  govern  yourselves  ac- 
cordingly. That  a  man  of  great  wealth  who  has  spent  his  life  among 
these  very  people  would  write  and  publish  such  a  book  gives  me  courage 
to  believe  this  Republic  will  weather  the  coming  cyclone  without  a  revo- 
lution. 

Mr.  Martin  has  surveyed  the  SCUM  of  society  from  the  TOP  while 
I  have  studied  its  DREGS  at  the  BOTTOM  ;    WE   HAVE  EACH  SEEN  A 

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VISION,   WE   ARE    NOT    DISOBEDIENT    UNTO    IT,   AND   WE    POSSESS 
THE  COURAGE  TO   PREACH    OUR   CONVICTIONS. 


Appeal  to  Chri^endom 


I  believe  in  a  Militant  Christianity;  I'm  weary  of  watching  our  patient, 
pious,  professed  believers  in  God  and  His  Christ  flocking  to  Church  twice 
every  Sabbath  and  prayer-meeting  once  a  week  and  strolling  home  again 
with  UNSEEING  eyes;  listening  to  long  winded  sermons  and  singing: 

"MUST  WE  BE  CARRIED  TO  THE  SKIES 

ON  FLOWERY  BEDS  OF  EASE? 

WHILE   OTHERS   FOUGHT   TO   WIN  THE  PRIZE 

AND  SAILED  THROUGH  BLOODY  SEAS." 

And  content  to  JUST  PRAY,  "THY  WILL  BE  DONE,"  while  the 
DEVIL  and  his  OWN  are  running  our  business,  municipal,  state  and  na- 
tional affairs.  Don't  your  scriptures  tell  you  to  WORK  and  WATCH  as 
well  as  PREACH  and  PRAY?  Read"  Matthew  XXVI: 40  "And  he  cometh 
unto  the  disciples,  AND  FINDETH  THEM  ASLEEP,  and  saith  unto  Peter 
WHAT,  COULD  YE  NOT  WATCH  WITH   ME  ONE  HOUR?" 

Study  the  developments  in  the  murder  case  of  gambler  Rosenthal  in 
New  York  City;  the  election  of  Lorimer  in  Illinois;  the  Leo  O'Neil  Brown 
trial;  the  conspiring  against  Clarence  S.  Funk  in  Chicago;  the  McNamara 
dynamiting  cases  and  the  Darrow  bribery  trial  here  at  home:  Then  ask 
yourselves  if  there  isn't  MUCH  WORK  TO  BE  DONE  SOON,  IF  THIS 
GOVERNMENT  IS  TO  ENDURE,  AND  "NOT  PERISH  FROM  THE 
EARTH." 

AROUSE  YE  CHRISTIAN  SOLDIERS;  GIRD  ON  YOUR  ARMOR 
AND  GET  BUSY;  AFFILIATE  AND  START  SOMETHING;  TURN  TO 
THAT  OTHER  OLD  FASHIONED  HYMN  AND  SING: 

"SURE  WE  MUST  FIGHT  IF  WE  WOULD  WIN, 
INCREASE  OUR  COURAGE  LORD." 
For  twenty  years  I  have  emphatically  and  persistently  declared,  I 
believed  I  would  be  permitted  to  live  to  see  sincere,  earnest,  honest,  con- 
scientious people  control  and  govern  everything  in  this  Nation  and  evil 
minded,  wicked,  corrupt  agents  of  Satan  who  cumber  the  earth  will  be 
compelled  to  change  their  ways  and  cease  to  pollute  God's  footstool.  THAT 
DREAM  GROWS  BRIGHTER  EVERY  DAY: 

"MY  FAITH  LOOKS  UP  TO  THEE, 

THOU  LAMB  OF  CALVARY." 
"TRUTH  FOREVER  ON  THE  SCAFFOLD; 

WRONG  FOREVER  ON  THE  THRONE; 
BUT  THAT  SCAFFOLD  SWAYS  THE  FUTURE, 

AND  BEHIND  THE  DIM  UNKNOWN 
STANDETH  GOD  WITHIN  THE  SHADOW, 

KEEPING  WATCH  ABOVE  HIS  OWN." 
"WE  STAND  AT  ARMAGEDDON  AND  WE  BATTLE  FOR  THE 
LORD" 

The  Hope  of  Cardinal  Gibbons 

This  great  churchman  is  reported  as  saying:  "I  hope  the  Lord  will 
SEND  us  a  president  after  His  own  heart." 

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My  dear  Cardinal  did  you  never  hear  of  the  old  colored  brother  who 
prayed  long  and  earnestly  for  the  Lord  to  SEND  him  a  turkey,  and  no 
turkey  came.  They  he  prayed  for  the  Lord  to  SEND  HIM  FOR  a  turkey 
and  lo,  one  appeared  unto  him. 

Will  your  gracious  Eminence  please  change  the  form  of  your  prayer 
and  ask  the  Lord  to  GUIDE  and  DIRECT  us  and  SEND  US  OUT  TO 
SEEK  AND  FIND  A  MAN  AFTER  HIS  OWN  HEART  WORTHY  TO  BE 
PRESIDENT. 

The  Jane  Addams  Chorus 

"THE  BEAUTY  OF  ISRAEL  IS  SLAIN  UPON  THY  HIGH  PLACES: 
MOW  ARE  THE  MIGHTY  FALLEN!"     2  Samnel  1:19. 

Dear  Miss  "DOUBLE  D'ED"  ADDAMS;  my  heart  aches  for  you  in 
your  FIRST  SERIOUS  mistake.  I  do  not  KNOW  things  but  I  FEEL  them, 
and  I  FEEL  in  the  very  depths  of  my  soul  that  you  have  made  a  tre- 
mendous blunder.  I  claim  to  be  a  TRUE  PROGRESSIVE  IN  POLITICS; 
I  wish  to  progress  FORWARD  and  UPWARD,  not  BACKWARD  and 
DOWNWARD.  Can't  you  see  that  your  active  efforts  to  put  a  war  lord 
back  into  the  White  House  will  do  far  more  harm  to  the  women  of  the 
whole  world  than  his  latent  sympathy  for  the  cause  of  equal  suffrage  will 
ever  help  those  in  America? 

Note  the  interview  with  James  Boyle,  once  secretary  to  W^illiam  Mc- 
Kinley,  given  out  from  Columbus,  Ohio,  August  31st.  I  know  we  must 
be  very  careful  how  we  read  such  reports  during  a  campaign,  but  this 
is  so  in  accord  with  known  facts  it  seems  to  ring  true.  It  is  history  thai 
if  our  SAINTED  THIRD  MARTYRED  president,  our  Spanish  Minister, 
General  Stewart  L.  Woodford  and  the  Queen  of  Spain  had  been  LET 
ALONE  they  would  have  solved  the  question  of  Cuba  by  diplomacy  far 
better  than  we  settled  it  (?)  by  war.  If  j^u  peruse  the  news  from  that 
rebellious  island  frequentlyy  you'll  see  that  the  Cuban  problem  isn't  satis- 
factorily adjusted  yet,  and  that  this  "PEARL  OF  THE  ANTILLES"  is 
NOT  the  "PEARL  OF  GREAT  PRICE"  but  a  lusterless  one  which  Uncle 
Sam  will  have  to  polish  repeatedly.  Now  comes  a  man  whom  I  presume 
to  be  serious  and  responsible,  like  a  voice  from  the  tomb  at  Canton,  Ohio, 
saying: 

"THE  DECLARATION  OF  WAR  AGAINST  SPAIN  WAS  AN  ACT 
WHICH  HAS  BEEN  AND  ALWAYS  WILL  BE  THE  GREATEST  GRIEF 
OP  MY  LIFE.  THE  ONE  MAN  IN  WASHINGTON  MORE  CLAMOROUS 
FOR  THIS  WAR  THAN  ALL  OTHERS,  AND  MORE  RESPONSIBLE  FOR 
THE  WAVE  OF  PASSION  WHICH  SWEPT  OVER  THE  COUNTRY  AND 
WHICH  I  FINALLY  FOUND  IMPOSSIBLE  TO  RESIST,  AVAS  THEO- 
DORE ROOSEVELT." 

Many  cU-ar  but  misguided  sisters  of  our  glorious  Golden  State  are 
taking  your  honored  name  in  vain.  They  have  organized  "The  Jane  Ad- 
dams Chorus,"  stolen  the  music  and  plagiarized  the  words  of  a  grand 
patriotic  hymn  and  are  now  singing,  "ROOSEVELT,  MY  ROOSEVELT." 
to  incoroprate  ANY  MAN'S  name  into  these  semi-sacred  songs  in  this 
manner  is  not  progressive  politics,  ii  is  retrocession,  desecration  and 
idolatry.  One  step  more  in  the  sjinic  direction  and  we  will  be  singing 
our  National   Anthem  closing  "GREAT   ROOSEVELT   OUR    KING." 


If  our  beloved  Republic  is  to  answer  the  greatest  call  of  humanity  in 
the  twentieth  century  and  lead  the  world  in  the  cause  of  "PEACE  ON 
EARTH,"  the  authoress  of  "THE  NEWER  IDEALS  OF  PEACE,"  cannot 
afford  to  take  an  active  inteerst  in  the  political  fortunes  of  ANY  MAN 
who  leans  toward  militarism,  dictatorship  and  despotism. 

Baroness  Von  Suttner,  advocate  of  peace;  Abdul  Baha,  servant  of 
God;  Rabbi  Emil  G.  Hirsh,  great  Hebrew  teacher;  Rev.  Jenkin  Lloyd 
Jones,  pastor  of  Abraham  Lincoln  Center,  and  ALL  PEACE  WORKERS 
AND  PEACE  LOVERS  wherever  dispersed  on  the  face  of  the  globe,  pray 
without  ceasing  that  our  co-worker  may  see  her  error  and  return  to  the 
loving  friends  who  wait  to  forgive  her  FIRST  great  mistake,  even  as  they 
hope  ALL  OUR  SINS  may  be  FINALLY  FORGIVEN. 

My  dear  sister  Jane  Addams,  YOUR  COURSE  IN  THIS  CAMPAIGN 
MEANS  MUCH  TO  THE  WORLD.  Believing  you  to  be  a  sincere  christian 
God-fearing  woman,  I  beseech  you  to  earnestly  seek  instruction  from  the 
Great  Source  whence  cometh  all  true  inspiration;  pray  in  secret  over  this 
matter  as  Samuel  J.  Tilden  evidently  did  and  may  you  receive  the  answer 
that  came  to  him,  TO  SACRIFICE  PERSONAL  AMBITION  FOR  PEACE. 

In  the  name  of  Our  Common  Brotherhood  I  implore  you  to  cease 
soiling  your  skirts  following  the  trail  of  the  Moose  Herd  through  the 
political  wilderness,  "LAY  DOWN  Y'OUR  ARMS,"  and  COME  BACK, 
"INTO  THE  UNION  OF  ALL  WHO  LOVE,  FOR  THE  SERVICE  OF  ALL 
WHO  SUFFER." 

George  Washington 

Think  of  the  Father  of  Our  Country;  in  spirit  meek  and  humble; 
recall  his  endurance  at  Valley  Forge;  remember  his  magnanimity  at  Y'ork- 
town,  declining  to  accept  the  sword  of  Lord  Cornwallis;  directing  Col. 
Lincoln  to  receive  it  and  return  it.  Hear  him!  "LET  THERE  BE  NO 
CHEERING  TO  HUMILIATE  THE  SOLDIERS  OF  KING  GEORGE;  POS- 
TERITY CAN  DO  OUR  SHOUTING." 

Once  when  Virginia  House  of  Burgesses  tendered  him  a  vote  of  thanks 
for  his  bravery  in  the  cause  of  the  Colonies,  he  arose  to  respond  but  was 
overcome  with  emotion  and  unable  to  articulate.  The  speaker  said;  "SIT 
DOWN,  MR.  WASHINGTON,  YOUR  VALOR  IS  ONLY  EQUALLED  BY 
YOUR  MODESTY.  AND  THAT  IS  GREATER  THAN  ANY  LANGUAGE 
1  POSSESS." 

And  again  when  the  representatives  of  the  Colonies  were  bickering 
and  quarreling  and  the  new  ship  of  state  threatening  to  plunge  on  the 
rocks,  they  sought  Washington  and  his  advice.  Not  being  an  after  dinner 
orator,  he  wrote  his  address.  When  he  rose  to  read  it,  could  not  find  hip 
spectacles;  while  they  searched  for  them  he  said  with  infinite  pathos, 
"I'VE  GROWN  GRAY  IN  THE  SERVICE  OF  MY  COUNTRY  AND  NOW 
I'M  GROWING  BLIND."  And  their  hearts  were  softened  one  toward  an- 
other and  they  took  council  together,  heeded  his  admonitions  and  the  Con- 
tinental Congress  sailed  serenely  on. 

Contemplate  the  close  of  his  public  career.  When  the  affairs  of  the 
new  Republic  he  had  founded  could  be  safely  entrusted  in  the  hands  of 
others,  he  firmly  declined  a  THIRD  TERM  as  president,  of  any  further 
honors  and  retired  to  rest  at  Mt.  Vernon.  NEVER  CHANGED  HIS  MIND 
ABOUT  THAT  THIRD  TERM. 

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And  now  we  see  this  true  gentleman  who  had  been  Commander-in- 
Chief  of  the  Armies  of  the  New  World,  twice  President  of  the  New  Nation, 
and  one  of  the  greatest  figures  in  all  history,  serving  as  vestryman  for  the 
church,  master  in  the  lodge  and  justice  of  the  peace.  AS  HE  LIVED  SO 
HE  DIED. 

This  noble  soldier  who  always  hated  war  and  loved  peace  and  his 
fellowmen,  died  peacefully  in  his  home  surrounded  by  family  and  friends, 
and  not  amid  the  carnage  of  the  battlefield.  He  who  had  been  a  great 
general  among  men  remained  the  "captain  of  his  soul"  until  the  spirit 
took  its  flight.  As  final  dissolution  approached  he  inquired  the  hour  of 
the  day,  felt  his  own  pulse,  composed  himself  and  fell  asleep. 
"ASLEEP  IN  JESUS;  BLESSED  SLEEP, 
FROM  WHICH  NONE  EVER  WAKE  TO  WEEP." 

I  can  hear  him  whispering  with  his  latest  breath:  FATHER.  INTO 
THY  HANDS  I  COMMEND  MY  SPIRIT;  RECEIVE  THOU  MY  SOUL 
BACK  TO  THE  HOLY  OF  HOLIES;  THE  SUPREME  GRAND  LODGE 
FROM  WHENCE  IT  CAME. 

Theodore  Roosevelt 

Now  listen  to  the  shouting  posterity  is  doing.  "MY  HAT  IS  IN 
THE  RING;  WE  KNOCKED  'EM  OVER  THE  ROPES  IN  PENNSYL- 
VANIA; WE'LL  BUST  'EM  IN  TWO  AT  CHICAGO;  i  AM  THE  COM- 
PROMISE CANDIDATE." 

They  certainly  did  bust  'em  in  two  at  Chicago,  and  if  I  can  read  the 
handwriting  on  the  wall,  by  the  light  from  the  East,  Mr.  La  Follette  should 
have  been  the  compromise  candidate,  and  THEN  the  G.  O.  P.  might  have 
again  escaped  the  loosening  avalanche. 

What  about  Mr.  Roosevelt's  meekness,  humbleness,  and  humility? 
Did  we  ever  hear  of  his  being  overcome  with  modesty?  Has  he  ever 
shown  any  magnanimity  in  dealing  with  his  adversaries?  Has  he  ever 
said  or  done  anything  to  soften  men's  hearts  toward  each  other,  when 
such  action  was  sorely  needed?  Many  men  are  testifying  that  gigantic 
sums  were  collected  from  the  OCTOPUSES  in  1904,  and  used  in  his  cam- 
paign; that  this  was  not  only  AGREEABLE  to  him,  but  that  he  said, 
MORE  FUNDS  FROM  THE  SAME  SOURCES  WOULD  BE  ACCEPT- 
ABLE. All  this  testimony  seems  to  SQUARE  with  the  spirit  of  the 
"DEAR  HARRIMAN"  letter,  and  yet  the  only  answer  from  the  Bull  Moose 
is  a  bawl  and  a  bellow  echoing  through  the  wilderness,  Liar!  LIAR! 
LIAR!  And  with  the  Psalmist  we  say  in  our  haste,  "ALL  MEN  MUST  BE 
LIARS." 

Isn't  he  an  advocate  of  WAR  and  a  progenitor  of  STRIFE  on  all  oc- 
casions? Seeking  to  again  reign  over  nearly  one  hundred  million  people 
when  he  cannot  successfully  govern  himself. 

"HE  THAT  IS  SLOW  TO  ANGER  IS  BETTER  THAN  THE  MIGHTY; 
AND  HE  THAT  RULETH  HIS  SPIRIT  THAN  HE  THAT  TAKETH  A 
CITY."  Prov.  XVI:  32. 

And  what  about  his  bravery?  Charging  recklessly  up  San  Juan  Hill 
and  RIDING  ROUGHLY  DOWN;  I've  been  told  his  horse  was  shot  in  a 
part  you  can't  mention  in  the  presence  of  ladies,  and  from  what  colored 
cavalry  brethren  have  also  told  me,  if  they  had  not  come  to  his  relief  and 

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rescue,  and  done  LESS  ROUGH  RIDING  and  MORE  SMOOTH  SHOOT- 
ING, we  might  not  now  be  in  danger  of  getting  STUNG  BY  THIS  THIRD 
TERM  BUMBLE  BEE. 

When  Mr.  Lorimer  was  unhorsed,  listen  to  the  CROW  that  came  from 
OYSTER  BAY,  where  LOBSTERS  CONGREGATE:  "It  was  MY  FIGHT, 
and  MY  VICTORY;  I  didn't  do  it  with  MY  LITTLE  HATCHET  but  I  did 
it  with  MY  DINNER  PLATE."  SHADES  OF  THE  ANANIAS  AND  SAP- 
PHIRA  CLUB!  I  hear  people  every  day  saying  that  he  has  ALEXANDER; 
CAESAR  AND  NAPOLEON  COMBINED,  "BACKED  OFF  THE  BOARDS 
AND  BEATEN  TO  A  FRAZZLE." 

"I  dare  believe  that  I, 

The  Cock,  am  nature's  summons  to  the  dawn; 

I  deign  to  fear  that  if  my  voice  were  silent 

The  East  would  sleep  and  night  would  still  reign  on." 

Abraham  Lincoln 

Look  upon  the  pathetic  picture  of  the  Emancipator  as  drawn  by  Rev. 
"Bob."  Burdette  at  the  Temple  Baptist  Church  for  their  Lincoln  Centen- 
nary  Memorial  Service.  "God's  Man — God's  Gentleman — with  hatred  for 
the  Sham,  with  pity  for  the  Dupe,  and  for  the  Trickster  scorn;  Patience 
for  those  who  chide — sorrow  for  those  who  mourn ;  Honor  his  breast-plate 
— Truth  his  oriflamme." 

Study  this  strangely  serious,  sober,  solemn  soul;  consider  his  infinite 
patience;  his  great  concern  for  little  things;  giving  PERSONAL  attention 
to  small  details  because  he  knew  they  were  VITAL  to  somebody,  and  yet 
his  great  tender  heart  was  breaking  under  the  terrible  strain.  Think  of 
his  humility  and  sweet  simplicity;  almost  the  day  before  he  died  he  was 
planning  with  Mary  about  their  return  to  Illinois.  Said  he;  "We  have 
saved  a  little  money  and  can  save  a  little  more  and  with  what  I  can  earn 
at  the  law,  we  can  settle  down  in  Springfield  or  Chicago  among  our  old 
friends,  and  live  in  comfort  to  a  green  old  age."  He  never  seemed  to 
think  about  a  THIRD  TERM,  a  soft  seat  on  the  bench,  or  of  asking  a 
grateful  people  to  keep  him  in  luxury  and  idleness  out  of  the  public  treas- 
ury, but  was  evidently  expecting  to  continue  to  earn  his  living. 

One  especially  distinguishing  feature  that  in  my  estimation  makes 
this  great  character  tower  above  other  men  was  his  tolerance  and  for- 
bearance with  his  adversaries,  his  utter  self  abnegation  and  ability  to 
get  service  out  of  his  opponents.  Take  the  case  of  Stanton;  when  friends 
pointed  out  that  the  Secretary  of  War  was  inclined  to  over-shadow  the 
President  with  his  GREATER  LEARNING,  "Honest  Abe"  said  never  mind 
about  that,  Mr.  Stanton  is  rendering  a  valuable  service  to  the  Nation  and 
I  want  him  to  stay  right  where  he  is.  Note  the  result;  at  about  the  last 
cabinet  meeting  Stanton  said  with  a  show  of  much  feeling  and  pride; 
"DIDN'T  OUR  CHIEF  LOOK  GRAND  TODAY."  Lincoln  hadn't  changed; 
Stanton  had:  he  had  begun  to  understand  elemental  grandeur.  And  it 
was  broken  hearted  Stanton  who  closed  his  good  friend's  eyes  in  death. 

In  the  untimely  death  of  Father  Abraham  I  hear  the  most  powerful 
temperance  sermon  ever  preached  in  this  land.  I  read  that  Booth  had 
been  drinking  heavily  for  days  before  he  committed  his  awful  crime;  and 
the  night  of  the  murder  he  had  passed  in  and  out  of  Ford's  and  frequented 
£1  nearby  bar;  finally  tossing  down  another  drink  or  two  this  great  actor 

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of  the  MIMIC  stage  entered  a  tjieater  for  the  LAST  TIME  and  slew  the 
greater  actor  on  the  REAL  stage  of  life.  He  fired  a  shot  that  was  heard 
round  the  world,  and  wrote  his  name  in  history  just  underneath  those  of 
Judas  Iscariot  and  Benedict  Arnold. 

Liquor  was  the  one  and  only  thing  that  could  have  nerved  any  man 
to  kill  Abraham  Lincoln,  and  against  the  evil  effects  and  ruinous  results 
of  this  accursed  stuff  it  seems  the  Lord's  annointed  are  not  at  all  times 
entirely  safe.  I  have  always  felt  sorry  for  Booth's  family,  because  Lincoln 
was  really  murdered  by  King  Alcohol  who  has  slain  his  millions  and  the 
SLAUGHTER  STILL  CONTINUES. 

"We  are  not  enemies,  but  friends.  We  must  not  be  enemies.  Though 
passion  may  have  strained,  it  must  not  break  the  bonds  of  our  affection. 
The  mystic  chord  of  memory,  stretching  from  every  battlefield  and  patriot 
grave  to  every  living  heart  and  hearthstone  all  over  this  broad  land,  will 
yet  swell  the  chorus  of  the  Union  when  again  touched,  as  surely  they 
will  be,  by  the  better  angels  of  our  nature."  First  Inaugural,  March  4, 
1861. 

Death  of  Jefferson  Davis 

NOW  SEE  THE  GREAT  PARADOX.  Hundreds  of  thousands  of  men 
had  been  drilling  and  fighting  for  four  years  and  singing:  "WE'LL  HANG 
JEFF  DAVIS  ON  A  SOUR  APPLE  TREE,  AS  WE  GO  MARCHING  ON." 
But  we  never  did  it  and  Mr.  Davis  lived  to  die  in  peace  at  a  ripe  old  age, 
while  Father  Abraham  in  the  dawning  of  the  morning  of  his  triumphant 
day  yielded  up  his  life,  "WITH  MALICE  TOWARD  NONE  AND  CHARITY 
FOR  ALL." 

Today  a  United  Nation  IS  MARCHING  ON  to  greater  conquests  in 
peace  than  she  ever  gained  by  war,  when  she  watered  the  roots  of  the 
tree  of  liberty  and  knowledge  with  the  red  blood  from  the  warm  hearts 
of  one  million  noble  sons. 

"ON  FAME'S  ETERNAL  CAMPING  GROUND 

THEIR  SILENT  TENTS  ARE  SPREAD; 
AND  GLORY   GUARDS   WITH   SOLEMN   ROUND 
THE  BIVOUAC  OF  OUR  DEAD." 
"PEACE   HATH   HER    VICTORIES   NO    LESS    RENOWNED   THAN 
WAR." 

"WE  ARE  COMING  FATHER  ABRAHAM  ONE  HUNDRED  MILLION 
STRONG." 

William  Howard  Taft 

Let  us  take  the  measure  of  our  biggest  president  who  now  fills  the 
VACANT  CHAIR  of  Washington  and  Lincoln  physically  while  leaving  it 
empty  spiritually.  Collier's  says  Senator  Dolliver  crystallized  public  con- 
ception of  him  in  this  terse  epigram:  "A  large,  amiable  body,  closely 
surrounded  by  persons  who  know  t  .\actly  what  they  want." 

Think  of  the  gaunt  Lincoln  with  deep  lines  in  his  serious  face  and 
then  of  the  smooth,  sleek,  well  fed,  rosy  gilled,  self-centered  and  self- 
satisfied  man  who  wears  a  smile  that  WON'T  COME  OFF,  and  don't  be- 
lieve in  doing  anything  until  somebody  first  does  soniething  to  him;  who 
might  MEET  a  snail  liiit  would  certainly  never  ON'Kin'AKE  or  I'.XSS  one 


in  the  JOURNEY  OF  LIFE  although  he  could  possible  DISTANCE  one  in 
a  GOLF  GAME. 

He  never  showed  any  signs  of  the  "virile  virtues  and  the  fighting 
edge"  until  Teddy  the  Terrible  whacked  him  over  the  head  with  the  Big 
Stick  and  prodded  him  in  the  fattest  place  with  his  harpoon,  and  then 
he  did  the  WRONG  THING  every  time  and  said:  NOTHING  BUT 
DEATH  CAN  KEEP  ME  OUT  OF  THE  RACE."  Even  Theodore  the  First 
who  is  GREATER  THAN  DEATH  failed  to  keep  him  out  of  the  contest. 

Brother  Taft  you  made  a  sad  mistake  when  you  entered  this  running 
and  a  more  mournful  one  when  you  asked  re-election  as  an  approval  of 
your  administration.  This  is  no  FAT  MAN'S  MATCH.  If  I  can  read  the 
answer  in  the  stars  the  Taftian  smile  WILL  COME  OFF  about  November 
6th,  and  you  will  receive  the  most  stinging  rebuke  any  of  our  Presidents 
ever  got,  NOT  excepting  Andrew  Johnson,  who  came  within  ONE  VOTE 
of  being  IMPEACHED.  I  am  doing  my  little  best  to  help  get  out  the  full 
voting  strength  of  the  Nation  and  what  Woodrow,  Ted,  and  the  two 
Eugene's  don't  get  you  can  have,  and  I  think  it  will  amount  to  a  VIRTUAL 
IMPEACHMENT  BY   THE  PEOPLE. 

YOU'LL  GET  A  COMIC  VALENTINE  FROM  ARIZONA.  You  made 
them  change  their  Constitution  before  letting  them  into  your  Union;  then 
they  set  their  hearts  on  coming  in  on  Lincoln's  birthday  and  you  made  it 
convenient  to  be  out  of  Washington  that  particular  day  "AS  PER  USUAL," 
and  let  them  in  two  days  later  which  makes  them  the  SWEETHEART 
STATE  instead  of  the  LINCOLN  STATE,  and  makes  necessary  another 
holiday  when  we  have  too  many  now.  They  think  this  was  the  SMALL- 
EST THING  ANY  BIG  MAN   EVER  DID. 

A  Prescott  friend  tells  me  he  once  interceded  with  you  to  modify  an 
order  which  he  explained  had  ruined  some  people  and  was  going  to  im- 
poverish several  more,  and  he  says  you  replied  that  "IT  WAS  A  DE- 
PARTMENTAL MATTER  AND  YOU  COULDN'T  INTERFERE";  but, 
pleaded  my  friend;  "YOU  MADE  THE  ORDER,  MR.  PRESIDENT,  AND 
CAN'T  YOU  MODIFY  YOUR  OWN  ORDER?"  Again  you  responded,  "I'VE 
TURNED  IT  OVER  TO  THE  DEPARTMENT  AND  I  CAN'T  INTER- 
POSE." We  note  that  when  Morse's  friends  appealed  to  you,  you  did  not 
show  such  firmness  of  character  and  you  DID  MEDDLE  with  JUSTICE 
in  her  due  course  of  procedure  IN   FAVOR  OF  A  FELON. 

You  have  likened  this  government  under  your  administration  to  what 
we  may  expect  in  heaven  under  a  just  God.  You  being  the  present  head 
of  the  Nation  don't  you  see  whose  place  your  crude  figure  of  speech  makes 
you  assume?  I  have  heard  religious  people  complain  of  this  and  I  think 
they  will  remember  you  November  5th  as  they  were  betrayed  into  re- 
membering Brother  Bryan  in  '96.  If  our  public  affairs  are  dispensed  by 
you  and  your  lieutenants,  the  present  senate,  judiciary,  and  some  such 
judges  as  you  have  sought  to  appoint  is  a  miniature  of  heaven,  I  am  not 
surprised  that  many  people  are  preaching  discontent  and  casting  their 
lot  with  His  Satanic  Majesty. 

You  rave  against  the  spread  of  Socialism  and  danger  of  Anarchy,  yet 
YOU  PARDONED  MORSE.  I  listened  closely  to  public  comment  and  I 
say  unto  you  this  WEAKEST  ACT  of  yours  put  the  real  spirit  of  lawless- 
ness into  more  hearts  than  has  ALL  THE  MISTAKES  of  Eugene  V.  Debs. 
These  are  the  things  that  are  making  more  anarchists  that  the  soap  box 

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orators  or  the  I.  W.  W.  free  speech  crusaders.  If  respect  for  law,  belief 
ill  our  courts,  and  faith  in  our  institutions  is  ever  again  to  be  instilled 
into  the  very  SOULS  OF  THE  PLAIN  PEOPLE,  a  few  WEALTHY 
ROGUES,  RICH  RASCALS,  and  MIGHTY  THIEVES  MUST  DIE  IN 
PRISON. 

What  can  we  expect  when  the  poor  and  oppressed  see  such  people  as 
Morse  hiring  the  very  shrewdest  unprincipled  lawyers,  suborning  perjury, 
bribing  jurors,  corrupting  judges,  and  taking  appeal  after  appeal  with 
stolen  funds;  then  if  they  fail  to  defeat  or  wear  out  justice  in  all  these 
numerous  ways,  they  seek  the  pardon  of  compliant  governors  or  weak 
Presidents  and  re-enter  their  nefarious  business  schemes  with  tainted 
money.  In  Los  Angeles  Times  under  date  of  August  16,  from  Houston, 
Tex.,  I  read  "that  Charles  W.  Morse,  recently  released  from  the  Federal 
prison  at  Atlanta,  Georgia,  will  begin  operating  two  extensive  steamship 
lines  about  October  1st,  and  has  INVESTED  A  LARGE  SUM  OF  MONEY 
IN  THE  VENTURE."  And  again  in  the  same  paper  under  date  of  Septem- 
ber 4th,  from  New  York,  I  read,  "this  DYING  man,  nattily  dressed  with 
red  cheeks,  bright  eyes  and  apparently  in  PERFECT  HEALTH  has  rented 
a  fine  suite  of  office  rooms  at  his  old  stand  and  launched  the  Active  Secu- 
rities Company,  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  MAINE  and  CAPITAL- 
IZED AT  CONSIDERABLY  MORE  THAN  A  MILLION  DOLLARS."  Why 
not  under  the  laws  of  NEW  YORK,  since  its  offices  and  headquarters  are 
at  No.  49  Exchange  Place,  New  York  City?  WHOSE  MONEY  IS  HE  IN- 
VESTING IN  THESE  "GAMES"? 

I  understand  he  was  convicted  for  carrying  a  chain  of  banks  with  no 
adequate  security  for  depositors  as  required  by  law;  what  the  money 
changers  of  Wall  Street  call  BUILDING  A  BUSINESS  PYRAMID  WITH 
THE  APEX  DOWNWARD.  Therefore  these  large  sums  he  is  now  putting 
into  the  steamship  lines,  and  the  OLD  SHELL  GAME  of  Wall  Street  again, 
really  belong  to  those  whose  deposits  he  risked  to  get  this  money. 

"WE,  THE  PEOPLE  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES,  IN  ORDER  TO 
FORM  A  MORE  PERFECT  UNION,  ESTABLISH  JUSTICE,  INSURE 
DOMESTIC  TRANQUILITY,  PROVIDE  FOR  THE  COMMON  DEFENCE, 
PROMOTE  THE  GENERAL  WELFARE,  AND  SECURE  THE  BLESS- 
INGS OF  LIBERTY  TO  OURSELVES  AND  OUR  POSTERITY"  mean  to 
find  out  how  these  things  are  done,  and  we  intend  to  STOP  them  if  we 
have  to  add  many  more  Amendments  to  our  Constitution  and  write  a 
revised  version  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence.  WE  WILL  do  this 
without  laying  impious  hands  on  the  Ark  of  the  Covenant,  or  plying  the 
axe  to  the  root  of  the  tree  of  Liberty  and  Law.  WE  SHALL  NOT  dese- 
crate the  Flag  nor  destroy  our  Fundamental  Foundation.  Neither  shall 
we  let  YOU  DEVASTATE  OR  DISSIPATE  these  priceless  legacies  be- 
queathed to  us  by  the  Fathers,  in  the  more  DANGEROUS  and  DEADLY 
way  you  are  going  about  it,  WHILE  YOU  CLAIM  TO  BE  THEIR 
DIVINELY  APPOINTED  CUSTODIAN. 

The  New  York  Dispatch  said  Morse  would  take  possession  of  his 
luxurious  suite  and  KI<:-ENTEH  THE  GAME  FRIDAY.  THIS  WILL 
PKOVK  TO  BE  THE  BLACKEST  FRIDAY  WALL  STREET  EVER  SAW. 
WHEN  A  DYING  MAN  RE-ENTERS  THIS  GAME  IT  MEANS  THE  GAME 
SHALL  ALSO  DIE.  I  HKMEN'E  I  VOICE  THE  DEKI'  KEEMNC.S  OF 
ABOU'J'  NIXTY    MILLION   PEOPLK   WHEN   I  SAY   TilKSE  G.VMHLKRS 

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OF  WALL  STREET,  MUST  SOON  CEASE  TO  FINANCIAL»LY  RULE  OR 
RUIN    THIS    WHOLE    NATION    OF    ONE    HUNDRED    MILLION    CITI- 

.ZENS. 

You  and  your  stand-pat  bunch  such  as  Aldrich,  Cannon,  Penrose, 
Crane,  Guggenheim  and  their  ilk,  claiming  to  hold  a  copyright  on  the 
party  of  Lincoln,  say  this  is  the  best  government  on  earth;  IT  IS  FOR 
YOU  AND  THOSE  WHO  SUPPORT  YOU.  You  point  to  the  FULL  DIN- 
NER PAIL  and  say  the  laborer  should  be  satisfied  with  his  hire.  HE  IS 
NOT!  "Man  does  not  live  by  bread  alone."  Deut.  8:3.  Mat.  4:4.  Luke 
4:4.  Millions  of  hearts  are  aching  for  BETTER  THINGS  than  we  have 
known;  SOUL  HUNGER  and  SPIRITUAL  STARVATION  are  abroad  in 
the  land.  We  do  NOT  expect  the  cakes  and  ale,  fine  homes,  automobiles 
and  champagne  of  the  rich,  but  in  our  humble  cottages  we  are  praying 
for  the  "BREAD  AND  WATER  OF  LIFE,"  which  the  Master  promised  He 
would  give  FREELY  to  "ALL  THAT  LABOR  AND  ARE  HEAVY  LADEN," 
if  they  would  "COME  UNTO  HIM  AND  ASK  IN  HIS  NAME."  Is.  33:16; 
Rev.  22:17.    .Ter.  2:13. 

I  note  that  when  the  poor  obtain  a  sack  of  flour  or  side  of  bacon  UN- 
DER FALSE  PRETENSES,  even  to  feed  a  hungry  family,  they  are  punish- 
ed and  generally  serve  out  their  FULL  TERM  in  jail;  yet  Morse  obtained 
his  FREEDOM  UNDER  FALSE  PRETENSES,  re-enters  business  (?)  on 
a  large  scale  with  cash  acquired  in  the  same  way,  and  I  believe  under  our 
laws  the  people  cannot  touch  him  or  return  him  to  the  penitentiary;  but 
they  do  have  some  little  satisfaction.  THEY  CAN  RECALL  THE  MAN 
WHO  OPENED   THE  DOORS   OF  THE  PRISON. 

You  talk  about  Neurotics,  visionary  dreamers  and  the  millenium  being 
thousands  of  years  hence,  when  it  is  near  at  hand,  EVEN  NOW  KNOCK- 
ING AT  OUR  VERY  DOORS.  See  Prov.  29:18  and  Rev.  20:  1  to  4.  Your 
greatest  defect  is  in  wearing  No.  11  E  shoes  and  Size  1%AA  wings. 

In  your  harsh  figure  of  speech  you  builded  better  than  you  knew;  YOU 
ARE  ONLY  MISTAKEN  AS  TO  TENSE.  Personally,  Brother  Taft,  I 
wish  you  good  health  and  long  life.  I  know  you  will  NOT  WANT  even  if 
you  never  have  another  fat  job  because  your  millionaire  brother  whom 
you  credit  with  having  made  you  president  can  provide  for  you  if  neces- 
sary. 

I  earnestly  hope  you  will  live  to  see  this  Republic  managed  as  it 
SHOULD  BE  and  as  I  believe  it  WILL  BE  in  your  day  and  mine.  Then 
it  may  soak  through  your  fat  what  a  glorious  golden  opportunity  passed 
by  the  White  House  while  you  were  out  playing  golf,  riding  about  the 
country  in  luxurious  trains  working  for  another  term,  banqueting  or  sleep- 
ing. It  would  have  been  a  priceless  blessing  to  the  burden  bearers  of  the 
Nation  had  you  been  just  a  little  more  in  the  NEUROTIC  CLASS,  and  con- 
siderably less  in  the  ELEPHANT  FAMILY.  "Sleep  on  now  and  take  your 
rest:  behold,  the  hour  is  at  hand,  and  the  Son  of  Man  is  betrayed  into 
the  hands  of  sinners."     Mat.  26:45. 

COMRADES  IN  THE  BATTLE  f5r  BREAD!  We  need  a  man  in  our 
executive  mansion  with  more  SPRING  STEEL  in  his  construction,  and 
backed  by  less  UNITED  STATE,'?  STEEL  and  TENNESSEE  COAL  & 
IRON  than  his  predecessor  WAS,  and  IS  when  now  again  seeking  to  get  a 
HARVESTER  TRUST  grip  on  the  same  office.     THE  TRUST  BUSTER! 

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WASN'T  IT  THE  BLIND  SENATOR  GORE  WHO  SAID,  "THE  ONLY 
TRUST  HE  EVER  REALLY  TRIED  TO  BUST  WAS,  "IN  GOD  WE 
TRUST"  ON  OUR  COINAGE"? 

Lincoln-Douglas  Debates 

Go  back  to  the  Lincoln-Douglas  debates  of  the  '60s  and  compare  them 
with  the  Roosevelt-Taft  prize  fight  and  Referee  Root's  decision.  See  these 
great  political  opponents  arrayed  against  each  other;  debating  from  the 
same  platform  the  tremendous  question  that  was  soon  to  plunge  us  into 
a  black  midnight  of  war  that  seemed  to  have  no  dawn.  NOTE  THEIR  DIG- 
NIFIED LANGUAGE  AND  PERSONAL  RESPECT;  HEAR  LINCOLN 
CLOSING:  "THE  REAL  ISSUE  IS  THE  STRUGGLE  BETWEEN 
RIGHT  AND  WRONG;  IT  IS  THE  ETERNAL  PRINCIPLE,  NO  MATTER 
IN  WHAT  SHAPE  IT  DEVELOPS;  IT  HAS  EXISTED  SINCE  THE  BE- 
GINNING OF  TIME,  AND  IT  WILL  CONTINUE  WHEN  THESE  POOR 
TONGUES  OF  JUDGE  DOUGLAS  AND  MYSELF  SHALL  BE   SLENT." 

The  eloquent  tongues  of  Abraham  Lincoln  and  Stephen  Arnold  Doug- 
las have  long  been  silent  and  sacred  dust,  AND  THE  GREAT  CONFLICT 
STILL  GOES  ON  AND  GROWS  EVER  MORE  FIERCE;  BUT  IT  SHALL 
NOT  LONG  CONTINUE.  If  the  Hosts  of  the  Grand  Army  of  Right  who 
believe  in  God,  no  matter  where  or  how  they  found  Him  will  rally  under 
one  banner,  and  affiliate  on  all  civic  and  civil  problems  they  will  soon  win 
a  decisive  victory  over  the  Legions  that  work  in  darkness,  and  RIGHT- 
EOUSNESS WILL  TRIUMPH,  RULE  AND  GOVERN  ALL  OUR  TEM- 
PORAL AND  MATERIAL  AFFAIRS,  BEFORE  "OUR  POOR  LISPING, 
STUTTERING,  STAMMERING  TONGUES  ARE  SILENT  IN  THE  TOMB." 

ALL  RELIGIONS  ARE  FUNDAMENTALLY  ONE  AND  ALL  SERI- 
OUS FRATERNITIES  HEW  THEIR  CORNER,  KEY  AND  CAPSTONES 
OUT  OF  THE  SAME  ROCK  OF  AGES.  "ROCK  OF  AGES  CLEFT  FOR 
ME,  LET  ME  HIDE   MYSELF  IN  THEE." 

Degenerate  Statesmen 

During  my  thirty  years  work  on  our  railroads,  I  have  had  a  splendid 
opportunity  to  study  some  of  our  GREAT  sitatesmen  at  close  range.  For 
many  years  I  was  in  service  on  the  SANTA  FE'S  CALIFORNIA  LIMITED; 
I  called  our  buffet  car  the  TOBACCO  PARLIAMENT.  By  being  a  good 
listener  and  a  close  observer  I  almost  got  into  the  SECRETS  OF  GOV- 
ERNMENT as  administered  by  the  POTHOUSE  POLITICIANS  and  PO- 
LITICAL SHYSTERS  who  DISGRACE  our  state  legislatures  and  INFEST 
Washington. 

I  have  watched  these  fellows  swilling  whisky,  guzzling  beer,  hanging 
over  high  priced  champagne  in  diners  and  club  cars  on  trains  do  luxe 
with  women  of  easy  virtue,  and  I  have  thought  of  tliat  ancient  philosopher 
Seneca  who  wrote  about  "FOOLS  THAT  LET  IN  A  THIEF  AT  THE 
MOUTH  TO  STEAL  AWAY  THE  BRAINS."  Many  a  time  I  have  lost 
what  few  hours  sleep  I  was  entitled  to  take  in  order  to  keep  these  degen- 
erates out  of  the  berths  of  said  women,  or  from  insulting  decent  women 
and  enticing  into  evil  ways  young  ladies  traveling  alone. 

And  in  the  silent  watches  of  the  night  T  have  thought  of  the  CON- 
STITUENTS of  these  unworthy  PARASITES  on  our  body  politic,  toiling 

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on  the  farms:  delving  in  the  mines;  sweating  in  the  factories;  sweltering 
in  the  sweatshops;  paying  taxes  and  high  prices;  drawing  poor  wages; 
drinking  water  as  a  beverage;  going  second  class  if  they  ever  do  take  a 
journey,  in  order  that  those  who  sit  in  darkness  and  control  these  things 
may  provide  slush  funds  and  jack  pots  for  these  profligates,  who  in  their 
turn  spend  this  money  in  the  maintenance  of  the  very  lowest  element  of 

society. 

The  bipartisan  bunch  who  PUT  MR.  I^ORIMER  OVER  in  Illinois  fur- 
nished some  line  specimens  of  the  species  of  politicians  I  am  trying  to 
describe,  and  the  investigation  of  this  gang  developed  abundant  proof  of 
the  things  I  am  charging.  Wasn't  it  conclusively  shown  that  they  went 
out  in  automobiles  with  women,  drinking  and  carousing  and  scattering 
thousands  of  dollars  in  a  single  night?  Who  furnished  this  money  and 
for  what  purpose?  I  never  saw  it  growing  on  trees  nor  lying  around 
marked  and  labeled  in  thousand  dollar  packages  loose  in  our  streets.  Don't 
every  sane  person  believe  that  these  funds  are  obtained  from  those  who 
hold  high  positions  in  our  business  world,  and  that  by  this  corrupt  use 
of  money  they  secure  SPECIAL  PRIVILEGES  and  COLLECT  BACK 
FROM   THE   PEOPLE  TEN   DOLLARS   FOR  ONE. 

Under  our  present  system  a  few  of  these  purchasable  politicians  can, 
and  often  do  hold  the  BALANCE  OF  POWER  in  the  election  of  our  sen- 
ators. And  what  about  our  United  States  Senate?  I  have  heard  many 
men  who  were  in  touch  with  Washington  life  and  in  position  to  know 
whereof  they  spoke  just  casually  refer  to  it  as  a  MILLIONAIRES  POKER 
CLUB.     WOULDN'T  THAT  SHOCK  YOUR  SOUL! 

The  UPPER  HOUSE  of  our  ELDER  STATESMEN  which  should  be 
the  SHEEn'  ANCHOR  of  the  Nation  deteriorated  into  a  PASTIME  PARTY 
for  the  IDLE  RICH,  Avhose  chief  occupation  and  entertainment  lately  has 
been  spending  most  of  their  time,  and  a  lot  of  the  people's  money  in  trying 
to  SEAT,  rather  than  UNSEAT  one  of  their  number,  who  no  doubt  got 
his  election  by  the  same  means  and  methods  that  many  of  those  who  tried 
him  obtained  theirs. 

This  body  has  DOUBLY  DISGRACED  ITSELF  by  giving  out  that  it 
unseated  this  member  to  APPEASE  PUBLIC  CLAMOR  and  NOT  ON 
THE  EVIDENCE.  THIS  CASE  SEALS  THE  DOOM  OF  ELECTION  OF 
U.  S.  SENATORS  BY  STATE  LEGISLATURES. 

Evil  is  so  STRONGLY  ENTRENCHED  that  it  is  next  to  impossible 
to  obtain  evidence  against  it  under  our  rules  of  procedure.  Many  honest 
people  FEAR  ITS  POWER  and  keep  SILENt!  I  ponder  over  all  these 
things  when  I  am  rolling  along  over  the  mountains  where  the  stars  seem 
SO  NEAR;  look  up  at  the  MILLIONS  of  these  SCINTILLATING  DIA- 
MONDS with  the  spirit  of  a  MILLION  HEIR  and  say:  "WATCHMAN! 
WHAT  OF  THE  NIGHT?" 

Decadence  of  Republican  Party 

The  Republican  partj'  has  held  the  center  of  the  stage  almost  con- 
tinuously for  one-half  a  century.  Came  into  the  lime-light  enacting  a  ter- 
rible tragedy,  which  ran  for  four  long  heart-breaking  years,  and  closed 
with  Lincoln  the  martyred  hero  and  John  Wilkes  Booth  the  villain.  Pro- 
duced many  splendid  actors  and  presented  wonderful  dramas.  Then  it 
dropped  into  comedy  and  has  now  fallen  into  vaudeville. 

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GOODBYE  OLD   PARTY 

Those  who  control  its  remnant  today,  beseeching  the  people  to  pre- 
serve the  honor  of  the  OLD  GUARD,  and  perpetuate  the  party  of  HONEST 
ABE,  are  a  shame  and  a  disgrace  to  his  memory.  They  have  departed 
from  the  "FAITH  OF  THE  FATHERS,"  and  it  does  appear  the  G.  O.  P. 
that  came  into  power  with  LINCOLN  will  pass  into  history  with  TAFT. 
ROOSEVELT  HAS  POLITICALLY  ASSASSINATED  TAFT,  AND  JOINT- 
LY THEY  HAVE  MURDERED  THE  PARTY  THAT  HAD  SO  HIGHLY 
HONORED  BOTH. 

WE  COME,  NOT  TO  PRAISE  OUR  CAESAR.  AND  HIS  BRUTUS 
BUT  TO  BURY  THEM. 

TURN  OUT  THE  LIGHTS,  RING  DOWN  THE  CURTAIN. 

Decay  of  Statesmanship 

Washington  to  Roosevelt;  Lincoln  to  Taft;  Lincoln-Douglas  debates 
to  the  Roosevelt-Taft  political  prize  fight.  Stephen  A.  Douglas  to  William 
Lorimer!      "WHAT  A  FALL,  MY  COUNTRYMEN"! 

We  are  calling  for  another  Washington,  noble  and  sublime.  Praying 
for  another  Lincoln,  patient  and  pathetic.  CAN  WE  PRODUCE  RE- 
PLICAS OF  THEM?  OH,  PITYING  CHRIST,  SAVE  OUR  SUFFERING 
PEOPLE.     HEAR!    OH    FATHER,  HEAR  OUR   PRAYER. 

The  Socialist  Vote 

The  Socialist  Party  polled  over  FIFTY  THOUSAND  ballots  in  our 
charming  Angel  City  last  fall.  These  people  are  not  ALL  SOCIALISTS 
AND  ANARCHISTS  as  one  of  the  great  papers  here  would  have  us  be- 
lieve; few  of  them  know  the  true  meaning  of  those  words.  They  were 
simply  PROTESTING  against  existing  conditions. 

Brethren  be  careful  in  what  manner  you  express  your  convictions  lest 
you  may  develop  a  remedy  that  might  prove  to  be  worse  than  the  disease. 
I  have  LITTLE  patience  with  people  w^ho  vote  carelessly,  LESS  for  those 
w-ho  vote  spitefully,  and  NONE  for  those  who  do  not  vote  at  all.  Witli 
FIVE  political  parties  in  the  field  and  their  PAID  orators  sawing  the  air 
and  pawing  up  the  earth,  large  numbers  of  voters  are  totally  indifferent, 
utterly  unconcerned  in  the  outcome,  do  not  intend  to  go  to  the  polls — 
and  are  saying,  "WE'VE  GOT  TO  HAVE  A  REVOLUTION."  The  vin- 
dictiveness  often  shown  in  this  remark  indicates  they  are  just  ITCHING 
TO  SEE  IT  START;  these  people  seem  to  think  it  would  chastise  only 
those  whom  in  their  judgment  need  punishment;  forgetting  that  the  ter- 
rible burden  of  all  wars  in  their  finality  fall  on  the  innocent,  non-combat- 
ants, widows  and  orphans,  and  that  the  particular  people  they  want  to 
see  suffer  would  grab  their  money  bags,  rush  aboard  a  MODERN  UN- 
SINKABLE  TITANIC  ARK.  steam  swiftly  over  to  Europe  and  leave  us 
toilers  to  suffocate  in  the  flood. 

I  tell  these  folks  that  if  enough  of  them  keep  THINKING,  TALKING 
and  ACTING  their  way  we  WILL  HAVE  a  revolution  and  if  it  conies 
"rocks  hide  us,  mountains  on  us  fall!"  It  won't  be  any  opera-bouffe  af- 
fair; when  this  Nation  makes  war  it's  just  exactly  what  General  Sherman 
said  it  was  AND  WORSE.  Against  this  pernicious  doctrine  I  have  been 
preaching  in  season  and  out  for  twenty  years. 

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I  regard  the  growing  STAY  AT  HOME  VOTE  as  a  more  dangerous 
menace  to  free  government  that  the  Red  Rag  of  Anarchy  and  the  Red 
Bandana  of  Roosevelt  TOGETHER,  TWIN  HARBINGERS  OF  AN  EVIL 
TIME.  Large  numbers  of  these  STAY  AT  HOMES  are  really  good  people 
but  they  are  DISGUSTED  with  Taft,  NAUSEATED  by  Roosevelt,  SICK 
of  politics  in  general  and  have  lost  faith  in  ALL  PARTIES,  OLD  OR 
NEW. 

Entirely  too  many  of  us  have  lost  faith  in  our  GOD,  faith  in  our  FEL- 
LOWS and  faith  in  OURSELVES.  The  old  fashioned  "Faith  of  the 
Fathers"  must  again  be  instilled  into  the  hearts  of  ALL  THE  PEOPLE 
or  THIS  REPUBLIC  WILL  "PERISH   FROM  THE   EARTH." 

Five  Candidates — Choose  Ye 

If  there  is  any  more  than  five  parties  with  Presidential  tickets  in  the 
field  they  have  not  yet  come  to  my  knowledge.  These  five  leaders  men- 
tioned in  the  order  of  their  personal  fitness  for  safety  and  service  in  the 
high  office  to  which  they  aspire,  in  my  judgment  would  stand  as  follows: 
Wilson,  Chafin,  Debs,  Taft  and  Roosevelt;  that's  just  my  private  opinion 
publicly  expressed;  those  who  differ  have  a  perfect  right  to  theirs. 

I  would  like  to  see  the  full  voting  strength  of  the  Union  recorded  next 
November.  I  for  one  wish  to  know  just  what  our  country  is  up  against. 
VOTE  EARLY  and  ONCE  ONLY;  stand  up  and  be  counted;  you  cannot 
serve  God  and  Mammon.  If  you  think  the  liquor  traffic  is  our  greatest 
danger  and  that  a  successful  party  can  be  founded  on  Prohibition  to  solve 
THIS  question  and  ALL  OTHERS,  vote  for  Eugene  W.  Chafin;  I  hear  he 
is  a  very  fine  gentleman;  lives  over  Tucson  way  and  as  we  say  on  the 
plains,  IS  A  GOOD  OLD  SCOUT. 

If  you  think  Socialism  is  our  ONLY  SALVATION  vote  for  Eugene  V. 
Debs  of  MY  OLD  HOME  TOWN;  personally  he's  a  pleasant  sympathetic 
sort  of  a  chap;  has  made  lots  of  mistakes  and  been  punished  severely  for 
them  just  like  tlie  balance  of  us.  The  Hoosier  Poet  paid  him  a  beautiful 
tribute  in  one  of  his  earlier  dialect  rhymes  entitled: 

Owed  To  Terre  Haute 

"AND  I'VE  COME  BACK  WITH  WELCOME  TREAD 

FROM  JOURNEYINGS  VAIN,  AS  I  HAVE  SAID: 

TO  SETTLE  X»OWN  IN  CA'M  CONTENT 

AND  CUSS  THE  TOWNS  WHERE  I  HAVE  WENT. 

AND  BRAG  ON  OURN  AND  BOAST  AND  STRUT 

ABOUT  THE  STREETS  OF  TERRE  HUT. 

AND  THERE'S  GENE  DEBS,  A  MAN  THAT  STANDS 

AND  JUST  HOLDS  OUT  IN  HIS  TWO  HANDS 

AS  WARM  A  HEART  AS  EVER  BEAT 

BETWIXT  HERE  AND  THE  JEDGMENT  SEAT." 

If  you  think  Taft  is  worthy  of  his  hire,  desire  him  to  stay  on  the 
job,  play  golf,  sleep,  banquet  and  journey  about  the  country  while  the 
cunning  men  who  surround  him  run  the  government  to  the  very  best  in- 
terest of  themselves  and  their  kind,  then  vote  for  him.    I  beg  to  dissent. 

If  you  think  the  SUPERMAN,  THEODORE  THE  FIRST  has  assumed 
the  place  and  endeavored  to  usurp  the  power  of  the  FATHER,  SON  AND 

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HOLY  GHOST,  IS  OUR  ONLY  WHITE  HOPE  HERE  AND  NO^V,  and 
THE  BLACK  MAN'S  SOLE  TRUST  HEREAFTER,  JUST  VOTE  FOR 
HIM.  I  claim  the  constitutional  right  of  ONE  AVERAGE  CITIZEN  to 
interpose  a  strenuous  objection;  but  much  as  I  dread  the  possible  result 
of  Mr.  Roosevelt's  election  I  would  rather  see  people  VOTE  FOR  HIM 
than  to  know  that  they  intend  to  STAY  AWAY  FROM  THE  POLLS  AND 
TAKE  NO  CONCERN  in  our  coming  National  election.  And  if  he  is 
elected  I  will  stick  to  my  job,  look  pleasant,  continue  to  fan  the  fires 
of  optimism  with  the  breath  of  faith,  and  do  my  ONE  HUNDRED  MIL- 
LIONTH PART  toward  making  his  THIRD  administration  a  greater  suc- 
cess that  his  FIRST  TWO;  I  will  NOT  go  around  with  a  long  disconsolate 
face  thinking,  talking  and  acting  hard  times,  trying  to  help  plunge  the 
whole  country  in  a  panic  and  punish  ONE  HUNDRED  MILLION  PEOPLE 
to  get  even  with  ONE  and  THOSE  WHO  VOTED  FOR  HIM. 

If  we  do  not  cultivate  a  more  tolerant,  forbearing  and  charitable 
spirit  in  bowing  to  the  will  of  A  PLURALITY  we  will  soon  be  in  the 
same  conidtion  as  our  wretched  sister  Republic;  each  political  faction 
going  to  war  to  seat  their  particular  candidate;  then  we  shall  have  to 
DIAZIZE  our  distressed  country  and  the  Bull  Moose  seems  to  be  in  special 
training  for  the  same  kind  of  a  job  that  Brother  Porfirio  held  down  so 
long,  while  he  sat  on  the  lid  of  the  unhappy  land  which  SHED  THE 
BLOOD  of  Emperor  Maximilian  and  sent  his  Queen  Carlotta  back  to  her 
native  people  A  RAVING  MANIAC. 

But  if  you  think  with  me  that  under  all  these  CONFLICTING  V\R- 
CUMSTANCES,  CONFUSING  CONDITIONS  and  DANGEROUS  DOC- 
TRINES the  only  SAFE,  SANE  and  LOGICAL  thing  to  do  THIS  TIME 
is  to  vote  for  Woodrow  Wilson,  THEN  LET'S  JUST  MAKE  IT  PRAC- 
TICALLY UNANIMOUS.  I  cast  my  FIRST  ballot  for  Little  Ben  Harrison 
of  my  native  State,  and  my  LAST  for  Big  Bill  Taft  on  ROOSEVELT'S 
RECOMMENDATION;  I  don't  wish  him  to  select  any  more  Presidents 
for  me  and  LEAST  OF  ALL  TO  PICK  HIMSELF. 

Some  are  saying  we  can't  get  Presidential  timber  out  of  a  college 
professor;  they  remind  me  of  those  terribly  mistaken  people  who  said, 
"CAN  ANY  GOOD  THING  COME  OUT  OF  NAZARETH?"  The  worst 
they  have  brought  out  against  Brother  Wilson  has  been  to  dig  up  some 
of  his  EARLIER  WHITINGS  and  try  to  prove  by  them  that  he  is  unsound 
on  political  economy,  tariff,  etc.  IT  IS  TO  LAUGH!  Don't  every  one 
who  can  cipher  know  that  all  thinkers  and  writers,  as  they  grow  in  grace 
and  years  and  broaden  and  develop,  wish  they  could  ransack  the  libraries, 
burn  all  their  youthful  productions  and  rewrite  them?  If  you  don't  like 
some  of  Woodrow's  early  philosophy  Inuit  up  the  mass  of  nonsense  Theo- 
dore has  written  and  see  how  IT  SQUARES  with  present  theories  and 
conditions. 

At  any  rate  the  Democratic  candidate  seems  to  be  a  SINCERE  STU- 
DENT AND  STILL  WILLING  TO  LEARN,  and  a  great  many  GENTLE- 
MEN AND  SCHOLARS  are  badly  needed  in  Washington;  we  have  had 
enough  of  prize  lighters,  poker  players  and  figureheads.  I  note  that 
when  Mr.  Wilson  was  told  of  his  nomination  he  did  not  reply.  "BULLY 
BY  HECK!  I  FEEL  LIKE  A  BULL  MOOSE!  "  but  is  reported  to  have 
foaid,  "MY  FEEL!N(]S  AUK  TOO  DEEP  FOR  EFFEU VESCENCE."  I  try 
to   read   great   characters   by    little   things;    for   cxaini)]!'.    when    Emi)eror 

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Mutsuhito  gave  out  that  he  would  live  on  TWO  SIMPLE  DISHES  AT 
EACH  MEAL  in  order  to  save  money  for  the  war,  I  said  look  out  for  a 
Nation  whose  Sovereign  sets  his  subjects  that  precedent.  He  has  passed 
on  into  the  universe  that  sets  this  world  right,  and  they  are  calling  him 
the  DEARLY  BELOVED  "FATHER  OP  MODERN  JAPAN."  I  have  read 
many  items  about  Woodrow  Wilson  that  indicate  to  me  the  serene  deep 
soul,  and  I  believe  "THE  ELEMENTS  ARE  SO  MIXED  IN  HIM,  THAT 
NATURE  MIGHT  STAND  UP,  AND  SAY  TO  ALL  THE  WORLD,  THIS 
IS  A  MAN."  And  we  are  going  to  need  a  MAN  in  Washington  soon. 
BETWEEN  THE  WILSON  DEMOCRATS,  WILSON  REPUBLICANS, 
AND  WILSON  PROGRESSIVES,  IT'S  WILSON;   THAT'S  ALL. 

Furthermore,  don't  forget  THAT  OTHER  grand  good  Christian  gen- 
tleman on  the  TAIL  END  OF  THE  TICKET.  Our  Democratic  brethren 
made  something  more  than  a  "Sunny  Jim"  joke  out  of  that  part  of  the 
job.  I  was  "back  east"  last  year  and  got  some  first  hand  information; 
while  others  have  been  writing  long-winded  atricles  for  the  "Lookout" 
at  something  like  one  dollar  per  word,  and  forever  TALKING  about  what 
OUGHT  TO  BE  DONE,  Governor  Marshall  has  been  WORKING  and 
DOING  THINGS  and  TAKING  THE   UPLOOK. 

Stars  and  Stripes  Forever 

Our  Star  Spangled  Banner  is  a  grand  old  Flag.  Its  hues  are  all  from 
heaven — sunrise,  blue  sky  and  starlight.  Red  for  sacrifice,  white  for 
purity  and  blue  for  fidelity.  No  unclean  thing  should  exist  under  its 
sheltering  folds. 

Millions  have  DIED  for  it  and  what  they  thought  was  right.  MY 
FATHER  WAS  ONE.  I  want  to  LIVE  for  it  and  what  I  believe  to  be 
right  as  God  gives  me  to  see  the  right  in  the  BRIGHT  LIGHT  OF  THE 
TWENTIETH  CENTURY  THAT  BEATS  ON  THE  TOTTERING 
THRONES  OF  THE  WORLD. 

I  quote  the  closing  stanza  of  Riley's  tribute  to  our  National  Ensign 
recited  by  this  sweet  singer  of  "green  fields  and  running  brooks"  himself 
at  a  banquet  of  the  Iron  Brigade: 

"And  it  spake  with  a  shake  in  its  voice  as  it  said; 
By  the  driven  snow  white  and  the  living  blood  red 
Of  my  bars  and  their  heaven  of  stars  overhead: 
By  the  symbol  conjoined  of  them  all,  skyward  cast. 
As  I  float  from  the  steeple  or  flap  at  the  mast. 
Or  droop  o'er  the  sod,  where  the  long  grasses  nod. 
My  name  is  as  old  as  the  Glory  of  God." 
I   HAVE  ALWAYS  BELIEVED  I  WOULD   LIVE  TO  SEE  THE  TIME 
WHEN   IT  WOULD  NEVER  AGAIN  BE  NECESSARY  TO  BAPTIZE  OLD 
GLORY   IN   BLOOD. 

SENATOR  DOUGLAS  AND  THE  CONSTITUTION 
I  used  to  live  in  Chicago  near  Douglas  Park;  loved  to  wander  in 
there  and  gaze  at  the  Little  Giant  standing  away  up  there  on  his  pedestal, 
dignified,  elevated,  like  the  great  statesman  that  he  was;  stroll  around 
his  monument  and  study  the  figure  groups;  Illinois — History,  Eloquence 
and  Justice;  stop  in  front  of  the  door  and  read  the  inscription  on  the 
sarcophagus:  STEPHEN  A.  DOUGLAS,  BORN  APRIL  23RD,  1813;  DIED 
JUNE  3RD,  1861.     Judge  you  died  too  young;  the  very  day  the  first  skir- 

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mish  was  fought  at  Philippi.  You  didn't  live  to  see  the  great  struggle 
but  you  did  live  to  see  your  mistake,  and  when  people  live  to  realize 
their  mistakes  there  is  forgiveness  and  hope;  and  if  you'll  forgive  me 
my  comparison  I  will  proclaim  to  our  Nation,  with  all  the  power  in  my 
soul  the  message  you  left  us  here  on  your  coffin:  "TELL  MY  CHILDREN 
TO  OBEY  THE  LAWS  AND  UPHOLD  THE  CONSTITUTION." 

Those  are  the  exact  words  chiseled  into  the  cold  marble  that  holds 
the  earthly  ashes  of  "Little  Dug."  I've  stood  by  the  door  of  the  sepulcher 
and  pondered  them  till  I  could  almost  hear  this  great  orator  again  in  the 
flesh  thundering  forth  that  splendid  sentence.  It's  a  rich  inheritance;  a 
glorious  message;  read  it  again  and  engrave  it  on  your  hearts:  "TELL 
MY  CHILDREN  TO  OBEY  THE  LAWS  AND  UPHOLD  THE  CONSTI- 
TUTION." 

BY  THE  GREAT  JEHOVAH  AND  THE  SPIRIT  OF  THE  CONTIN- 
ENTAL CONGRESS  NO  IMPIOUS  HANDS  SHALL  PULL  DO\VN  THE 
FLAG  OF  BETSY  ROSS  AND  BARBARA  FRITCHIE,  NOR  TEAR  UP 
THE  CONSTITUTION  OF  OUR  PILGRIM  FATHERS  IF  OUR  FATHER 
WHICH  ART  IN  HEAVEN  WILL  GRANT  ME  GRACE  AND  POWER 
TO  AROUSE  OUR  SLUMBERING  PEOPLE. 

Visions  and  Dreams 

"And  it  shall  come  to  pass  in  the  LAST  DAYS,  saith  God,  I  will  pour 
out  of  my  Spirit  upon  all  flesh;  and  your  sons  and  your  daughters  shall 
prophesy,  and  your  YOUNG  MEN  SHALL  SEE  VISIONS,  and  your  OLD 
MEN    SHALL    DREAM    DREAMS."— Acts    2:17.      Joel    2:28. 

Being  now  at  the  zenith  of  my  life's  journey  between  youth  and  old 
age,  where  the  shadows  have  ceased  to  fall  westward  and  have  not  yet 
begun  to  lengthen  toward  the  east,  I  have  BOTH  VISIONS  AND  DREAMS. 
I  have  long  believed  we  were  living  in  the  LAST  DAYS;  not  the  last 
days  of  the  PHYSICAL  EXISTENCE  of  the  world  but  the  last  days  of 
the  control  of  Mammon  and  the  rule  of  evil  things;  the  POWER  AND 
DOMINION  OF  SATAN  WILL  SOON  BE  BOUND,  and  the  SPIRIT  OF 
CHRIST  SHALL  REIGN  over  the  whole  earth  and  govern  the  inhabitants 
thereof  even  unto  its  uttermost  parts. 

From  youth  up  anything  connected  with  Washington  or  Lincoln  has 
always  exercised  a  strange  and  strong  influence  over  me.  I  presume 
EVERY  SCHOOL  BOY  who  possesses  a  soul  that  is  QUICK  has  felt  the 
same  electric  thrills  when  he  first  began  to  read  about  the  great  charac- 
ters who  became  the  leaders  of  the  people  in  the  epochs  of  their  country's 
history.  These  so-called  FINER  FEELINGS  might  be  analyzed  as  the 
ecstasy  of  youth,  poetical  emotions  of  early  manhood  and  the  spiritual 
aspirations  of  maturer  years.  As  I  study  people  it  seems  to  me  most  of 
them  lose  these  beautiful  sensations  with  the  ceaseless  grind  of  toil  and 
Struggle  for  physical  existence  as  time  rolls  on,  but  they  ABIDE  WITH 
ME  and  grow  steadily  stronger  with  each  passing  year. 

I  shall  NEVER  FORGET  my  PECULIAR  EXPERIENCE  when  as  a 
Mason  I  first  looked  upon  a  good  portrait  of  Washington  in  our  lodge 
rooms.  I  felt  the  same  perturbation  1  might  have  received  li;ul  1  met  in 
the  flesh  this  brother  who  has  been  sleeping  at  Mt.  Vornon  uuire  than  a 
century,  and  in  all  that  time  "heard  only  one  tread  which  rhymed  with 
his  own."    It  just  seemed  as  if  he  would  step  out  of  his  frame  and  greet 

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me  A3  A  MASON.  I  got  a  lasting  impression  that  he  had  been  a  REAL 
Mason  GRAND  and  TRUE,  one  who  carried  our  spiritual  symbols  in  the 
heart  more  carefully  than  he  displayed  the  material  emblems  on  his  gar- 
ments, and  an  involuntary  conviction  rushed  over  my  soul  that  I  should 
endeavor  to  walk  upright  and  seek  to  be  worthy  to  follow  in  his  footsteps. 
And  in  little  ways  I  have  tried  to  do  so;  in  my  small  sphere  I  aim  to 
LIVE  the  SQUARE  DEAL  and  not  always  and  forever  JUST  TALK 
about  it.  If  I  can't  get  what  I  need  without  snatching  it  away  from  my 
fellow-men  I  go  without;  ON  that  principle  I  shall  continue  to  LIVE  and 
BY  it  I  shall  DIE;  if  after  a  long  life  of  steady  and  faithful  service  I  fail 
to  accumulate  enough  to  give  me  Christian  burial  I  shall  look  to  my 
brethren  whom  I  REFUSE  TO  ROB  to  provide  for  and  perform  that  last 
necessary  service. 

I  was  born  under  the  storm  and  stress  of  our  awful  rebellion.  My 
earliest  recollections  are  of  a  widowed  mother  weeping  over  a  soldier's 
grave,  and  as  reason  dawned  in  my  infant  mind  I  figured  out  that  war 
NEVER  WAS  and  NEVER  WOULD  BE  right.  When  a  boy  on  the  farm 
before  I  had  read  books  I  dreamed  of  a  plan  for  the  Universal  Peace  of 
the  World;  that  has  ever  been  the  over-mastering  passion  of  my  soul 
and  with  an  abiding  faith  that  RIGHT  finally  makes  MIGHT,  I  have  al- 
ways believed  I  would  be  permitted  to  live  to  see  it  firmly  established; 
the  over-towering  ambition  of  my  life  is  to  be  able  to  do  something  to 
help  promote  Peace  on  Earth  and  Good  Will  to  all  Mankind. 

By  the  good  fortune  of  chance  I  attended  the  meeting  of  the  Second 
National  Peace  Congress  at  Chicago  in  May,  1909;  when  I  saw  prominent 
people  of  ALL  RELIGIOUS  DENOMINATIONS  foregathered  there,  work- 
ing together  one  with  another  and  ALL  WITH  GOD,  in  this  greatest  cause 
T  thought  we  would  soon  solve  this  terrible  proposition  and  the  earth 
should  nevermore  be  drenched  with  human  blood  of  the  children  of  His 
creation. 

When  Rabbi  Hirsh  said.  "Psychology  has  shown  us  the  way,  we  are 
going  to  create  a  NEW  MENTAL  ATMOSPHERE  on  this  great  issue," 
I  thought  Brother  Hirsh  had  struck  the  keynote  in  the  grand  symphony. 
And  when  this  great  Jew  throwing  his  whole  soul  into  an  impassioned 
appeal  said,  "If  war  is  right  I  misread  the  life  of  the  best  man  who  ever 
trod  the  earth";  referred  to  Jesus  of  Nazareth  as  the  noble  teacher  who 
was  not  received  by  his  people  because  he  did  not  come  bearing  a  sword 
at  the  head  of  a  vast  temporal  and  material  army  with  banners  as  they 
expected  their  Messiah  to  come;  the  gentle  Gallilean  who  KNEW  NOT 
how  to  fight,  but  who  DID  KNOW  how  to  weep  and  struggle  and  sweat 
blood  in  Gethsemane  and  suffer  and  die  on  Calvary;  who  refused  to  draw 
the  sword  yet  received  the  spear  thrust  in  his  side  saying,  "Father!  for- 
give them  for  they  know  not  what  they  do."  I  said  Amen!  When  our 
Hebrew  brethren  begin  to  believe  that  the  CRUCIFIXION  WAS  A  SAD 
MISTAKE  WE  ARE  NEARING  THE  SOLUTION  OF  ALL  THE  PROB- 
LEMS THAT  VEX  THE  W^ORLD. 

Rev.  Jenkin  Lloyd  Jones  with  pardonable  pride  told  of  the  great 
things  Chicago  had  done;  when  he  pointed  out  that  one  of  her  greatest 
achievments  was  discovering  Abraham  Lincoln  and  giving  him  to  the 
world,  although  Father  Abraham  had  been  resting  at  Springfield  for 
nearly  half  a  century  I  seemed  to  feel  his  presence  in  that  meeting,  and 

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a  tremendous  persuasion  that  his  spirit  was  in  blissful  harmony  and 
sweet  accord  with  all  earnest  souls  working  in  the  great  cause  for  which 
we  were  gathered  together. 

And  yet  today  if  I  GAZE  STEADILY  at  a  good  likeness  of  our  FIRST 
martyred  President  the  SORROWFUL  FACE  OF  THE  GREAT  EMANCI- 
PATOR SEEMS  TO  SMILE;  this  reminds  me  of  a  story  about  this  exalted 
soul  who  himself  dearly  loved  a  good  story  while  he  was  in  the  flesh. 
A  woman  who  had  been  to  intercede  with  him  for  her  son  said  as  she  left 
his  presence,  "I  knew  they  had  been  lying  to  me!"  "What  about,"  said 
her  companion.  "Why."  said  she.  "They  told  me  Mr.  Lincoln  was  UGLY 
and  he  is  the  HANDSOMEST  MAN  I  EVER  SAW."  You  see  the  woman 
looked  at  Father  Abraham  with  the  penetrating  vision  of  the  soul  and 
NOT  with  the  unseeing  eyes  of  the  body. 

"For  NOW  we  see  through  a  glass,  darkly;  but  THEN  face  to  face* 
NOW  I  know  in  part,  but  THEN  shall  I  know  even  as  also  I  am  known." — 
1  Cor.  13:12.  We  are  in  the  dawning  of  the  morning  of  grander  glorious 
golden  days.  The  mists  and  bewildering  vapors  of  superstition  are 
clearing  away.  We've  got  the  wireless  and  are  steadily  improving  it, 
just  beginning  to  learn  how  to  pick  up  the  mysterious  magnetic  waves: 
getting  a  faint  glimpse  of  the  possibilities  of  static  electricity;  drawing 
nearer  and  nearer  to  an  intelligent  understanding  of  the  Great  Mystic 
Force  that  swings  the  planets  in  their  orbits  and  rules  the  Universe 
with  law  and  order;  ever  striving  to  get  into  communication  with  the 
Chief  Dispatcher  who  never  has  a  collision;  no  fogs  obscure  His  signals; 
no  delays;   EVERYTHING  ALWAYS  ON  TIME. 

Standing  on  the  sundown  shore  of  our  peaceful  sea  with  nerves  high 
keyed  and  spirit  yearning  to  catch  the  sublime  harmony  and  majestic 
meter,  rippling  rhyme  and  rolling  rhythm  of  the  music  of  the  spheres; 
with  the  vision  of  the  soul  I  gaze  across  the  vast  ocean  of  eternity  and 
I  seem  to  see  the  Father  of  Our  Country  and  the  Savior  of  the  Union 
looking  this  way  from  the  shores  of  time.  "I  HAVE  NO  VOICE  TO 
REACH  THEM  WITH"  but  I  appear  to  FEEL  that  they  are  trying  to  tell 
the  citizens  of  the  dear  Republic  where  they  lived  and  wrought  before 
they  crossed  over  the  GREAT  DIVIDE,  that  our  paramount  patriotic 
duty  in  the  pending  crisis  is  to  cast  our  ballots  for  Woodrow  \\'ilson  of 
New  Jersey  and  Thomas  R.  Marshall  of  my  native  State. 

During  the  quarter  of  a  century  I  have  served  on  our  railways  I  have 
made  many  friends  from  Chicago  to  Key  West,  and  from  the  Statue  of 
Liberty  catching  the  first  beams  of  the  morning  enlightening  the  world, 
to  the  Golden  Gate  receiving  the  last  rays  of  the  setting  sun  aiul  marking 
the  going  down  thereof;  and  1  sincerely  hope  and  honestly  think  many 
people  who  know  me  per.sonally  and  well  will  be  free  to  say  they  truly 
believe  no  selfish  purpose,  sinister  design,  ulterior  motive  or  ALL  THE 
GOLD  IN  THE  WORLD  could  induce  me  to  make  THIS  STATEMENT  in 
THIS  MANNER  if  I  did  not  FEEL  ITS  VERY  TRUTH  THROHHING  IN 
EVERY  FIBER  OF  MY  HEING.  and  HEAR  MY  DISTRACTED  COUNTRY 
CALLING  ME   IN  THE   HOUR   OF   HER   NEED. 

If  any  man  .'vcr  felt  CALLED  TO  TREACH  I  have  b^on  impelled  by 
that  same  IRRESISTIBLE  POWER  to  write  UIi^^■  homily,  and  offer  it  to 
the  UNION   MY  FATHER   DIED  TO  SAVE. 

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CHECK  50  PAID 

Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  November  6th,  1912 
President-elect  Wocdrow  Wilson,  Sea  Girt,  N.  J. 

GOD  REIGNS  AND  THE  GOVERNMENT  STILL  LIVES.  ONCE 
MORE  OUR  BELOVED  REPUBLIC  RIDES  TO  SAFE  ANCHORAGE 
THROUGH  THE  STORM.  WE  LOOK  TO  YOU  TO  RExMOVE  THE  SEAT 
OF  ITS  POWER  FROM  WALL  STREET  BACK  TO  WASHINGTON. 
HOPE  TO   MEET  YOU  AT  GETTYSBURG   NEXT  JULY. 

YOURS   FOR    HUMANITY,   PEACE   AND    PROSPERITY, 

WILLARD  LIGHT. 


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